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Lanny Patrick Sack, 20, and Christopher McQuillen, 21, and two other young men killed in boating accident on Lake Beulah in Walworth County, Wisconsin

Modified Date: 
Fri, 09/08/2017 - 3:45pm
Accident Date: 
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Four Illinois Men Drown In WisconsinLake

(CBS) – Two bodies were recovered and two were still missing Sunday after four Illinois men took a canoe out on a frigid Wisconsin lake, authorities said. The four unidentified men – aged 20 to 23 – were staying with a larger group of friends at house on Lake Beulah and went outside around 1:30 a.m. Sunday to smoke cigarettes as the others were retiring, says Jason Roberts, a warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The group of friends that had remained at the house told investigators everyone had been drinking before the accident, he said. The DNR official referred questions about the identities of the victims to the Walworth County Medical Examiner’s Office.

2 bodies found, 2 men missing in Wisconsin canoe accident - WTOP

The four men left the house early Sunday morning and told friends they were going for a smoke but never returned. A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources spokesman says the four men are from Illinois and aged 20 to 23. EAST TROY, Wis. (AP) — Authorities now say two bodies have been pulled from a frigid Wisconsin lake and two other men are missing after the four friends left a house early Sunday morning and apparently took a canoe out on the lake but never returned. They’d gone to visit a friend whose parents have a house on Lake Beulah, about 35 miles southeast of Milwaukee. In the morning, their friends discovered that they were not in the house and found tracks to the boathouse.

Latest: Diving resumes in search for fourth victim at Mill Lake

TOWN OF EAST TROY — Diving will resume at a southern Wisconsin lake where searchers are looking for a fourth Illinois man presumed drowned. The canoe was later spotted overturned in the lake, which is about 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee. The bodies of three other men have been recovered from Mill Lake in Walworth County after the four went missing last weekend. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says divers are resuming their search Friday. State officials say the four friends, ages 20 to 23, left a lake house where they were spending the weekend and apparently took a canoe out on the lake in the middle of the night and never returned.

All 4 in Wisconsin Boating Accident Attended New Trier

As of Monday morning, bodies of two men had been found while search efforts continued for the other two. A third body was found around 2:30 p.m. The four reportedly left a house on Lake Beulah southwest of Milwaukee around 3 a.m. Sunday to “go out for a smoke,” but never returned.

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Type: Boat Accident
People Involved: 
Lanny Patrick Sack
Christopher McQuillen
County: 
Walworth County, WI
Area: 
Milwaukee, WI

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