The search for Gary Laron Jones continued on Tuesday at Lake Oconee through several law enforcement and emergency agencies.
Howard Sills, Sheriff of Putnam County, said that nine boats for natural resources in Georgia, a DNR helicopter, a PCSD boat, a boat with the Forsyth County Dive Team and Putnam County Fire Rescue boats were occupied and searched through the lake.
According to Sills, most boats were equipped with sonar.
Sills said that the missing Boater got out at Lake Oconee on February 8 at 3:30 p.m. The woman with whom he went out was found dead on Lake Oconee on Lake Oconee on February 9 on February 9th. DNR play guards recovered their bodies.
Wilson has been reported to have been a math professor at Spelman College since 2007. Jones is a trail-and-field coach at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta.
Jones and Wilson, both from Atlanta, were engaged and came to Lake Oconee to celebrate his 50th birthday. Sills said her boat contained a large chocolate biscuit with icing, a few bananas and some water.
The search has lasted since February 8, when the couple's 11-foot-Sundolphin boat reported not to circled. Sills said he was alone at the lake on Sunday, February 16, on the lake and was looking for his boat, but due to the cold temperatures and winds, no other law enforcement agencies were on the move on that day.
Jones 'friends and affected residents circulate with Jones' Bild “Missed Person” poster around the Lake Oconee.
In conversation with news reports on Monday, Sills said that he didn't think Jones would be found until his body came into the lake, which he estimated that he would happen about 14 to 20 days after the boat.
“You are cordially invited to publish posters who are looking for a missing person,” said Sills. “But all the evidence we have, physical evidence, witnesses and such things show that drowning the lake is the correct use of our resources now.”
Sills said he registered Jones as a missing person in the National Crime Information Center, and he would continue to be a missing person on NCIC until his body is found.
With regard to people who believe that a boat accident happened, Sills said that the boat had no damage and no evidence that it was crashed against something was hit by another boat, was flooded by water or kentrized.
The events when they passed
Sills explained the timeline of the events that he confirmed with flock cameras, security video cameras, hotel check-in reports and testimony:
Saturday, February 8th
When the couple arrived on Saturday, they went directly to the Marathon petrol station on the Greensboro Road. There in Fish Tale Marina Jones started his boat into the water.
In the meantime, Wilson drove the pickup with the connected boat trailer into the lodge on Lake Oconee, where she parked the vehicle and entered the hotel. Jones drove Fish Tale's boat into the lodge, helped Wilson, some objects to load on the ship, and both went to the lake.
That was around 3:30 p.m. and a person called a person a few minutes after 5 p.m. and reported that the sun circled dolphin with the engine in the water. The boat was not occupied.
Sills said that it was about £ 400 on the small boat about £ 400 when you consider how much Jones and Wilson weigh after their driver licenses and add the weight of the boat engine and the gas tank.
In view of the power of the engine, he said that she had needed her for more than an hour and a half to reach the point where her boat was discovered.
“So whatever happened to them,” said Sills.
The 911 call of the caller went to the emergency service of Greene County, and the dispatcher informed the Georgia DNR Dispatch Center in Govertown. Two DNR game guards arrived to secure the boat and look for his inmates.
Sunday, February 9th
The following day, DNR called the Putnam County's Sheriff and asked a MP into the lodge to pick up the couple's things.
Instead, Sills ordered that the room was closed and secured if evidence was required.
After learning about the missing couple from a friend, the residents of Lake Oconee, Jeff and Kristy Everett took their boat on Sunday morning to support DNR in their search. Before he searched, Jeff called a family member who worked on Wallace Dam to determine whether water had been released on Saturday evening. When he learned that water had been released, the Everetts drove to the dam with their boat to look for.
“Sure enough, I saw the body out there in the standing wood that are near the jumping rock,” Everett told Lake Oconee News.
Everett's wife informed the DNR player and Jeff helped them pull Wilson's body out of the water. Putnam's deputy medical doctor, Andre Williams, said that Wilson's cause of death was indefinite and brought the body to the GBI State Crime Lab in Decatur to get an autopsy.
Sills said the autopsy had revealed some air in Wilson's lungs.
“However, this does not mean that she does not take up; this only explains why her body hovered instead of sinking to the bottom,” he said.
Monday diences, February 10th to 11th
When the disappearance and unknown state of the beloved High School Track Coach spread out, many volunteers followed the search party. The sheriff thanked for all the help.
“To be honest, some of these bass fishermen have an electronics that are far more sophisticated than we do,” he said.
One of the funeral dogs, which were brought in by a threshold called “reputable group”, alarmed twice during the search last week in the same area in which Wilson's body was found. The next day, a corpse dog searched in the country and had a goal on the coast of this area.
The sheriff said that DNR had “a kind of robot” to search the area but found nothing.
“The dog dealer said it could have been a remaining amount from Wilson's body there,” said Sills. “But it is 80 feet deep and with the standing wood the bottom of the lake looks like Mount St. Helens.”
The size of the lake, which described an area to pull too wide “, and the standing woods make it impossible.
“I did it all my life and lakes and rivers will give up a body if you want,” he said.
Sills found that other agencies can be invited to search.
Jones' shoes found
At some point in the search (Sills said he was not sure when), Jones Shoes were found by a civilian.
“They were not found together. They were about 15 meters apart in the water against the bank,” he said. “They had no mud on them at all, so they never touched the ground.”
Sills said that no mud was found on Jones' shoes, which meant that he had never climbed out of the water.
“I know our lake and I know that the shoes would have mud on them if I would climb out of the water and go to the shore everywhere,” he said. “I know because I did it hundreds of times myself.”
Sills said that he was confident that the shoes were Jones because he found out of the Game Guachs that they sent one of the brothers of Jones, Mike Jones, a picture of the shoes that identified the gray nikes of size 13 as such that looked like Gary.
“And I also noticed that he was wearing her in the security video in the marathon,” added Sills.
Wednesday Monday, February 12th to 17th
Sills announced on Wednesday evening that he had taken over the investigation with the support of the DNR. He said he had discussed the transition with the deputy DNR commissioner Thomas Bernard and it was now a “death examination”.
“All unattended deaths that those who are unattended by a doctor in the state of Georgia must be examined by law in accordance with title 45,” said Sills. “When I became aware of the circumstances and events of [Wednesday]I have found that it is time to enter and take over this examination. “
He explained that he had to receive search commands to examine the interior of the boat in which Jones' wallet was found. He also searches for her things that can help or explain what happened when searching.
He noticed that the boot's hood was removed, which indicates that Jones had worked on it.
“If he had made the throttle flap open and suddenly turned it, the thing will turn, and both could just have gone out of this boat,” he said. “I know that you can swim, but it will happen to you in 48-degree water swim.
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