On February 8, 2012 at 11:30 am, I State Game Warden received a call from the Limestone County Sheriff's Office that a boat was going in circles in the middle of Lake Mexia with no one in it.  I arrived at Lake Mexia to find the boat had been recovered by some fisherman.  The fisherman said that they saw a guy getting ready to launch the boat just after they had launched about an hour ago.  The fisherman did not see the man fall over board.  I found a type 2 personal flotation device, type 4 flotation device, and a set of keys in the boat.  I took the keys and looked in the truck and found identification.  The Limestone County Sheriff's Office sent an officer to the address on the drivers license to notify family that victim was missing.  

I launched my boat and started a bank search for him or any clues.  Game Warden arrived with a boat equipped with side scan sonar, and we started to search.  Around 12:30 pm we got an image that we believed to be a person.  Game Warden arrived to assist and got on board the boat.  We marked the location of the image with a bouy and started to drag.  We recovered the body at 5:10 pm.  Because of media and familly we met the Justice of the Peace at a different location on the lake.  The body was released to Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home, whom transported the body to Dallas Medical Examiner's Office for autopsy.
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