BASED ON INFORMATION TO DATE:  Operator BORROWED THE PONTOON BOAT.  THE VESSEL WAS PARKED ON C PIER OF THE PICKWICK STATE PARK MARINA.  Owner LAST SPOKE WITH victim AT 11:23AM ON 07/19/10.  AT THAT TIME operator WAS LOADING THE VESSEL AND PREPARING TO HEAD OUT ON THE LAKE.  operator DID NOT SHOW UP TO PICK UP HIS WIFE AS SCHEDULED AT 5:00PM.  ON THE MORNING OF 07/20/2010 owner WENT LOOKING FOR operator AND THE PONTOON BOAT.  owner DISCOVERED THE PORT SIDE OF THE PONTOON BOAT BEACHED ON THE NORTH BANK AT RIVER MILE 209.2.  operator WAS NOT ON THE VESSEL AND WAS NOT IN SITE.  owner DIALED 911 AND DROVE THE PONTOON BOAT TO THE PICKWICK STATE PARK BOAT RAMP.  HARDIN COUNTY CENTRAL DISPATCH CONTACT ME AT 10:14AM AND INFORMED ME OF THE MISSING PERSON.  OFFICER AND I RESPONDED TO THE CALL FROM HENDERSON COUNTY.  WE ARRIVED TO THE SCENE AT 11:10AM.  I INTERVIEWED owner, TOOK PICTURES AND GATHERED EVIDENCE AT THE BOAT RAMP.  owner FOUND THE BOAT WITH THE KEY IN THE OFF POSITION, THROTTLE IN NUETRAL, BACK DOOR OPEN AND SWIM LATTER DOWN.  operator's WALLET, PHONE AND CD'S WERE IN THE CONSOLE OF THE BOAT.  HIS SHIRT AND HAT WERE FOUND LAYING IN THE SEAT NEXT TO THE DRIVER.  HIS SANDALS WERE PLACED NEATLY ON THE DECK BELOW HIS SHIRT AND HAT. THREE EMPTY 12OZ CANS OF BUD LIGHT, ONE EMPTY 12OZ BOTTLE OF BUD LIGHT LIME AND ONE MOSTLY EMtPY BOTTLE OF VODKA WERE FOUND IN THE BOAT.  
IT APPEARS operator LEFT THE BOAT OR FELL FROM THE BOAT AND WAS UNABLE TO RETURN ABOARD.  operator's BODY WAS FOUND AT 2:38PM FLOATING NEAR THE CHANNEL AT RIVER MILE 208.5.  AUTOPSY REVEALED DEATH WAS CAUSED BY DROWNING.  TOXICOLOGY REPORT IS IN PROGRESS.
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