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The body of an Atlanta teacher has been discovered in waters near where his fiancee was found dead after the two disappeared while boating roughly one month ago.
On Sunday (March 9), Gary Jones' body was discovered after he and his fiancee, Joycelyn Wilson, an instructor at Spelman College, went missing on February 8 in Georgia's Lake Oconee, per NBC News.
Sheriff Howard Sills of Putnam County said Jones' body was found about 3 miles northwest of a dam that separates Lake Oconee from neighboring Lake Sinclair by a search-and-recovery expert brought in by the family.
Last month, an empty boat was found circling Lake Oconee, prompting an intensive search of the water. Video showed Wilson and Jones launching their small boat into the water from the marina. Wilson's body was found in the vicinity of where the boat and Jones' sneakers were found floating just one day after they both went missing.
Search-and-recovery expert Keith Cormican used sophisticated underwater sonar to locate Jones' body on Sunday, Sill said.
Jones was a teacher and track coach at the Westminister Schools, an exclusive Atlanta private school.
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