Gary Jones

The Bruce’s Legacy boat is parked in the rain after owner Keith Cormican used it to locate the drowned body of Gary Jones on Lake Oconee. LYNN HOBBS/Staff

Family, rescuers give insight on search for missing boater

Lynn Hobbs

Thursday, March 13, 2025

The month-long mystery of the missing boater on Lake Oconee came to an end Sunday. A specialized search and recovery team from Wisconsin found the body of Gary Jones.

Keith Cormican talks to news reporters Sunday after he found Gary Jones’s body.

Body of missing boater recovered

Lynn Hobbs

Sunday, March 9, 2025

The body of Gary Jones was recovered about noon Sunday, March 9, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said.Keith Cormican of Bruce’s Legacy in Wisconsin found Jones’s body on the 29th day of the search.

A Georgia DNR aviation crew searched Lake Oconee for missing boater Gary Jones last week. CONTRIBUTED/Casey Brady

Missing boater search continues: Sheriff investigates phone data, sighting tips, dam area

Lynn Hobbs

Thursday, February 27, 2025

The cell phone records of the late Joycelyn Nicole Wilson of Atlanta are being investigated in hopes of gaining new insight into her death and her fiancé’s disappearance.Wilson and her betrothed, Gary Laron Jones, were boating on Lake Oconee Saturday, Feb.

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