Does this link help?
http://fisheries.tamu.edu/files/2013/10/Snakes-of-Missouri.pdf
By reading this page, it is somewhat similar to Northern water snake?
Crap.And as for everyone's suggestions, sorry for the miscommunication, the snake is no longer with us. He was helplessly stuck and the ants had started in on him by the time I had found him. His brothers and sisters live on.
Crap.
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