UPDATE, Dec. 30: The search for Craig Strickland is resuming this morning. It has been reported that the weather at the time of the hunting trip was perilous, with 72 km/h winds and -9 Celsius wind chill. Oklahoma police also said there were “no personal flotation devices in use” at the scene.
UPDATE, Dec. 29: People is reporting that Craig Strickland’s black lab Sam, who accompanied the two men on the hunting trip, was found alive, wandering the shoreline of the Arkansas river close to where the hunters’ boat was found. As of 4:40 ET, there has been no sign of Strickland. His wife, Helen, posted this tweet:
ORIGINAL STORY: A search is underway for rock-country singer Craig Strickland after a hunting trip that seems to have gone terribly wrong. The lead singer of the band Backroad Anthem is currently still missing after the pair headed out early Sunday morning; his good friend Chase Morland, 22, who accompanied Strickland on the hunt in Oklahoma, was found dead in a lake on Monday afternoon.
Family members called police when they hadn’t heard from the pair in over 24 hours.
Morland posted this foretelling tweet before the two men headed out:
The search for Strickland, 29, will resume Tuesday after their hunting boat was found very late Sunday night in the same lake as Morland’s body — authorities believe it capsized and sent the two experienced hunters into the water.
Strickland’s wife, Helen, has taken to Twitter to garner support for the search:
This isn’t the first time the two men have gone into the wilderness together. Several posts on social media show them in camouflage in dense forest. The weather at the time of the incident was not ideal, but it’s not known if it was a factor in the incident.
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