Search for 3rd Boat Victim Called Off
The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday called off the search for the body of a third person believed killed in a Thanksgiving Day boating accident off Santa Catalina Island that still has investigators puzzled as to a cause.
“We have searched and searched and searched and we have decided no more further leads are evolving,” said Petty Officer James Schweikhardt of the Long Beach Coast Guard station. “The case will be reopened if something develops.”
The bodies of an elderly Hemet couple, Robert Reid, 84, and Thelma Reid, 75, were found late Thursday amid debris from the wreckage of the Lucky R, the cabin cruiser owned by their son, Charles Reid of Long Beach. Relatives told Coast Guard officials that Charles Reid also was aboard the boat, which was found demolished about 10 miles northeast of Avalon.
Coast Guard investigators are trying to piece together remains of the boat in an effort to determine what happened.
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