Coroner identifies ice fisherman recovered from Beltzville Lake (UPDATE)
Updated Mar 13, 2021;
Posted Mar 13, 2021
Beltzville Lake, looking north toward the swimming beach, is frozen over on Feb. 28, 2021.Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Shipe lived in the Bethlehem-area, Coroner Robert Miller Jr. said. Public records show an address for him in Lower Saucon Township.
Divers recovered Shipe’s body about 11 a.m. Friday near where his ice fishing gear had been found Thursday on the partially frozen lake near the Preachers Camp boat launch in Beltzville State Park.
Following an autopsy Saturday morning, the death was ruled an accidental drowning, Miller said.
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