{"id":217223,"date":"2025-02-14T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=217223"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:59:45","slug":"an-atlanta-coach-is-missing-and-his-fiancee-is-dead-after-they-fell-overboard-on-lake-oconee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=217223","title":{"rendered":"An Atlanta Coach is Missing and His Fianc\u00e9e is Dead After They Fell Overboard on Lake Oconee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><br><\/strong>A Westminster Schools coach is still missing five days after his fianc\u00e9e\u2019s body was pulled from Lake Oconee, leaving Atlanta\u2019s education community reeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Police say Gary Jones, 38, and Jocelyn Wilson, 34, checked into a lakeside hotel Saturday to celebrate his birthday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their empty boat was spotted circling the lake\u2019s main channel that evening. Wilson\u2019s body was found Sunday near a dock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No life jackets were found on the boat, according to Georgia DNR records. State law doesn\u2019t require adults to wear them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Despite calm conditions Saturday, search teams say underwater timber and 80-foot depths were complicating recovery efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea4 <strong>Search Update:<\/strong> Nine Department of Natural Resources boats, helicopters, and a cadaver dog trained to detect bodies underwater are scouring the lake. Authorities confirm this is the largest operation in Lake Oconee\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Westminster Schools coach is still missing five days after his fianc\u00e9e\u2019s body was pulled from Lake Oconee, leaving Atlanta\u2019s education community reeling. What\u2019s Happening: \ud83d\udd0d Between the Lines: \ud83d\udea4 Search Update: Nine Department of Natural Resources boats, helicopters, and a cadaver dog trained to detect bodies underwater are scouring the lake. Authorities confirm this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":98791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827],"tags":[17221,17222,10575],"class_list":["post-217223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missing","tag-gary-jones","tag-jocelyn-wilson","tag-the-westminster-schools","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}