The woman who found a body believed to be that of a missing Hettinger man credits the persistence of her bloodhound.

Tami Bulik, a member of an Aberdeen, S.D., volunteer search-and-rescue team, discovered the remains Tuesday afternoon while searching on her own with her dog, Lilly. Their discovery of the body that authorities say might be Norman Olson came after weeks of searches of the rural Hettinger area that at times involved hundreds of people, on foot and on horseback, and all-terrain vehicles.

"I couldn't get the feeling out; something just drew me back there," Bulik said of the rural farmhouse where Norman Olson's wife, Yvonne, was found shot to death Nov. 5.

"(Lilly) had brought us there twice before and tried to tell us," she said. "The credit goes to the dog."

Bulik said that on Tuesday, the dog led her around the abandoned house, then "started posturing, telling me something was there. Then she brought me to the house and tried to climb the north wall."

Bulik said she saw the body in a barrel in the building's attic.

"I had to brace myself between a couple of falling walls and just shimmy up enough to see a little bit," she said. "There are no stairs, and the walls are falling down."

Bulik notified Adams County Sheriff Eugene Molbert, who she said had "a mixed reaction: disbelieving that it hadn't been searched better (initially) but relieved that we'd finally found him."

Bulik said she could understand why the body was not discovered when Yvonne Olson's remains were found.

"It's hard to see that there was another level; it was kind of a hidden area," she said.

Molbert said searchers earlier had looked up through the ceiling and the attic appeared to be empty except for the barrel.

Bulik said the Olson family thanked her and the dog. "I think they can try to find some closure," she said.

Bulik, who is originally from Lakota but now lives in Aberdeen, said her 7-year-old dog had tracked down three other people earlier, but this was the first time Lilly had helped find a body.