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A boar moves on Lake Lanier near Cumming, Ga., on Dec. 28, 2023. Credit - Mike Stewart—AP. A Georgia man fishing at Lake Lanier drowned on Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of tragedies ...
Whitlock, from Snellville, Georgia, is the eighth person to drown in Lake Lanier so far in 2023. A week prior to Whitlock’s death, another 23-year-old man, Edgar Steven Cruz Martinez, drowned ...
More than 200 people have died at Lake Lanier between 1994 and 2022, according to USA Today and Georgia DNR, with most of the deaths attributed to drownings. Read more at Yahoo News: At least 39 ...
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
Oscarville is supposedly one of multiple "drowned towns" beneath Lake Lanier. [11] Local legend alleges Lake Lanier to be haunted. [12] One commonly claimed reason for the supposed haunting is the high number of drowning deaths, [3] with over 500 deaths between the lake's formation and 2021. [5] 200 deaths occurred between 1994 and 2020. [13]
Location of Forsyth County within the U.S. state of Georgia. In Forsyth County, Georgia, in September 1912, two separate alleged attacks on white women in the Cumming area resulted in black men being accused as suspects. First, a white woman reportedly awoke to find a black man in her bedroom; then days later, a white teenage girl was beaten ...
Moira Ritter. August 5, 2022 at 2:29 PM. Hall County Sheriff's Office. A man has been arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman, Georgia cops say. Timothy Krueger, 49, of ...
Retired. The murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond occurred in early May 2014 in Putnam County, Georgia, United States. The decapitated body of Russell Dermond (age 88) was found on May 6, 2014, in the garage of the house he owned on Lake Oconee. Neither his head nor his wife, Shirley (age 87), could be located in the house.