Who found the dead body in The body wrote by steven king

The story takes place during the summer of 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. After a boy from Chamberlain, Maine, named Ray Brower disappears and is presumed dead, twelve-year-oldGordie Lachance and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio set out "on a quest"[1] to find his body along the railways tr1] after telling their parents they will be camping out because they consider it to be a "rite of passage. Because they are young, the idea of finding the body excites them, making this trip an adventure. During the course of their journey, the boys, who all come from abusive or dysfunctional families, come to grips with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that does not seem to offer them much in the way of a future. It is not until they actually see the boy's body that they finally confront the.

The dead body was found by a group of four friend from Castle Rock who were searching for it. After they find the place where the body lies, they realized that there was not much else they could do. They called the authorities who are the ones that later find the body.