An investigation is underway after a boater was found dead in Branched Oak Lake Sunday evening.
Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says, “Two men located a boat floating and drifting across the lake Saturday between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. The two men were able to capture the boat, towed it to the marina, tied it up there and let them know there was an unattended vessel in the water. On Sunday, the two men were checking on whether the owner of the boat had been located. The marina said they hadn’t heard from anybody regarding the boat so we were contacted at that time. We searched the boat and determined it belonged to Kurt Roe, 60 years of age from Ransom, Kansas.”
A unit from Game and Parks then searched the lake Sunday with no results. Another boater found Roe in the water around 8:50 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Lancaster County Attorney’s Office has ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death and the investigation continues
Roe has two different addresses. One is in Ransom, Kansas and the other is in Weston, Nebraska.