A nearby farmer named Joe Marszalkowski took to his soybean fields to comb for the missing leg. He finally found it over the weekend and returned it to Marckres.
"Just got a message from Joe Marszalkowski that he found my leg. 9500 foot drop and it's 100% intact," Marckres wrote on Facebook. "I can not even begin thank everyone enough that has been involved with the search. You all have shown me there are still so many good people."
Marszalkowski responded, "I felt compelled to help this man, and by the grace of God I am able to return his leg!"
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Marszalkowski explained to NECN the process he went through to find the prosthetic leg, which still had a black-and-green New Balance shoe in place.
"You've always got to keep an eye out," he told the outlet. "It was literally a needle in a haystack as far as trying to find it."
Added Marszalkowski: "I was very grateful to have found it without running it over with a machine this fall during harvest. Or, God forbid, the combine sucked it up — it would've destroyed it."
The whole experience was "positive," said Marckres, and demonstrated to him that people, indeed, look out for one another.
"I can't thank everybody enough, especially Joe," he said. "We kind of take for granted sometimes how many truly good people there still are in the world."
Marckres shared footage and photos from his skydiving experience on Facebook, writing that it was an "amazing day," and that "there is more of this in my future for sure!"
Meeting up to return the prosthetic leg, Marszalkowski — who said he wouldn't be claiming the reward offered by the skydiver — posed for a selfie with Marckres. The two smiled in the photo, which the farmer captioned, "It’s never too late to make new friends."
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