 Search crews recover the body of award-winning chef and Top Chef Masters contestant Naomi Pomeroy. Naomi Pomeroy's body was recovered from an Oregon river on Wednesday, four days after the Top Chef star died in a freak tubing accident. Pomeroy's family confirmed that she drowned in a river accident while in her tubing in the Willamette River with her husband, Kyle Linden Webster, on July 13th.