Georgia police said a man who vanished with his fiancée last month was found dead on Sunday.
The body of Gary Jones was found in Lake Oconee after he and Joycelyn Wilson went boating on February 8. Wilson’s body was found a day later floating in the lake while Jones remained missing until recently.
Authorities found the boat the two were on, circling the lake, prompting a search by game wardens who were told there were two people on board by witnesses.
Jones’ wallet was found on the boat, while his shoes had washed ashore.
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Jones, 50, had taken his boat to a hotel near the lake where he and Wilson, 49, were planning to spend the night. However, they disappeared only 90 minutes into their boating trip, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills told WANF that they had zeroed in on a 2- to 3-acre area in the lake.
Volunteer diver Keith Cormican told WSB-TV that he and his team, Bruce’s Legacy, located Jones’ body 100 yards from where Wilson was found weeks earlier. Cormican said sonar was used to find Jones’ body — which was in a heavily wooded area, about 45 feet underwater.
“It was a little further- closer to shore than you know, than I would’ve suspected based on the boat activity. So it’s a little, little bit different area than you know, might expect based on the information,” Cormican told WMAZ.
Officials previously said that Jones had air in her lungs, explaining why she was found floating in the lake. They also claimed she was holding her phone. Reports indicated that her death is being treated as an active investigation, not a simple drowning. Her cause of death remains undisclosed.
Sills told WMAZ that Jones will undergo an autopsy before his body his turned over to his family.
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