Beaver Lake body identified
Crime lab says body is missing boater
Posted: August 14, 2009 at 9:02 a.m.
LOWELL — The Arkansas State Crime lab has identified the body found Tuesday in Beaver Lake as Doug Farnsworth, the boater who has been missing since a May 8 crash near Horseshoe Bend Park, according to a news release today from the Benton County Sheriff's office.
Fisherman discovered the body and officials pulled it from the lake and sent it to the lab in Little Rock. Officials there confirmed the identification late Thursday.
Farnsworth of Rogers was sitting in the front of a 25-foot Blue Wave fishing boat controlled by Carl Shelton, 34, when the crash occurred, according to a report by Cpl. J.D. Purdom, an accident investigator with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's enforcement division.
Records indicate Shelton picked up Farnsworth, 39, at a nearby boat launch shortly before the collision, which happened around 8 p.m. The men were in the nursery pond area, heading south when they encountered a 19-foot Angler boat steered by Daniel Walden, 39.
Walden and Dustin Rogers, 14, were traveling north out of Blackburn Creek into the main channel of the lake. Both drivers reported seeing the other's navigation lights and when they realized they were on a collision course began evasive maneuvers.
Purdom reported that each driver steered to avoid the crash, but chose the same direction. Walden turned right, and Shelton turned left.
Shelton's boat struck Walden's on the front left side.
The commission is investigating the crash but no charges have been filed.
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