A sheriff told news outlets on Sunday that the body of an Atlanta teacher and coach who went missing while boating on Lake Oconee in Georgia was retrieved from waters not far from where his fiancee was found dead shortly after their expedition.
The body of the teacher and coach was located in waters not far from where his fiancee was found dead.
According to testimony provided by Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the body of Gary Jones was discovered on Sunday afternoon in water that was approximately 45 feet deep on the popular tourist lake located southeast of Atlanta.
According to the publication, the discovery was made not too far from the location where the body of Jones’ fiancee, Joycelyn Wilson, a teacher at Spelman College, was discovered a day after the two of them went missing on February 8.
The body of Wilson was discovered in the region of where Jones’ empty two-seater fishing boat and his sneakers were discovered floating. This news comes exactly one month after the body of Wilson was recovered.
It was reported by Sills that the body of Jones was discovered by a search-and-recovery expert from Wisconsin named Keith Cormican. Cormican was called in by Jones’ family over the weekend and utilized sophisticated underwater sonar in his hunt for Jones.
Jones worked as a teacher and a coach for the track and field team at the Westminster Schools, which is a prestigious private school institution in Atlanta. An exhaustive search of the lake was initiated after the boat was seen to be circling in the water without any passengers.
In a prior statement, the sheriff’s office stated that it had obtained video of Wilson and Jones launching their tiny boat from a marina. When they were arrested, the authorities stated that they had been staying at a hotel on the lake, which is around 85 miles southeast of Atlanta.
The location where the body was discovered is approximately three miles to the northwest of a dam that provides a barrier between Lake Oconee and Lake Sinclair, which is located close to the south.
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Due to the fact that the Oconee River basin was flooded in order to construct the lake about half a century ago, there is still timber that is submerged in the water.
In the past, searches were conducted using a cadaver dog that had been trained, vessels from the government and commercial companies, a helicopter, and underwater sonar to investigate areas of the lake that were as deep as 80 feet.
