The tranquillity of Exchange Hill, St Michael was shattered Friday morning as a swarm of police officers descended upon the small village adjacent to Bibby’s Lane, following a lead that a man missing since Saturday might be dead at the base of a 30-foot well.Police would not confirm the identity of the man in the well, which was found hours after a missing person’s report was issued for Mitchell Anderson Nicholls, 28, the son of renowned baker McDonald Nicholls who died in January.“I can confirm that, having conducted certain investigations, we responded to this area at Exchange Hill, St Michael at 8:40 a.m, where we had information that there may have been a body in a well,” Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police Frederick Catwell told reporters. “On arrival, we did confirm [this] and with the assistance of the Barbados Fire Service and personnel from the Barbados Defence Force, we were able to retrieve a body from a well. This body is the body of an adult male and it was retrieved from the well about 12:15 p.m. today.”Regarding the victim’s identity, Catwell refrained from providing details but hinted at ongoing investigations into missing individuals, suggesting a possible link between the recovered body and these cases.“I don’t want to give you at this time any investigative information; however, I would confirm that it is the body of a male and we are conducting certain investigations into missing persons and there is a suspicion that this body is one of these missing persons,” he said.Barbados Fire Service Station Officer Roger Bourne explained that following the report of someone in the well, a complex operation had to be undertaken, which took into account the uncertainties of the well’s conditions and safety precautions. The whole process, from set up to retrieval, took about an hour and a half of preparation.