{"id":94771,"date":"2025-12-24T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:37:31","slug":"coast-guard-suspends-search-for-2-boaters-who-went-missing-off-fort-myers-family-speaks-out-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94771\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard suspends search for 2 boaters who went missing off Fort Myers; family speaks out &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coast Guard has suspended the search of two boaters who went <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/florida\/a-boat-was-found-running-in-the-gulf-with-no-one-aboard-a-search-is-on-for-2-missing-fishermen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">missing off the west coast of Florida<\/a> during their fishing trip.<\/p>\n<p>Family members say the prominent Fort Myers lawyer, 57-year-old Randolph Spivey and his uncle, 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier left for a trip to go fishing Friday, but never returned. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on social media, the Coast Guard said they would suspend the search on Monday at sunset. <\/p>\n<p>The concerned family of the two fishermen said they called the Coast Guard on Friday, who launched a search and rescue mission that lasted until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a nightmare, it feels like I\u2019m in a horror movie,\u201d said Deborah Billmaier, the wife of one of the missing men.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard reported that they had found the boat that the men used, but not the two men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an amazing husband, and an amazing father, he\u2019s got to come home,\u201d said Tricia Spivey, the wife of the other missing boater.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends gathered to find the two men, and help support the family during their difficult experience.<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones say Spivery has been an experienced fisherman for over 30 years, alongside Billmaier, who is from Weston.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coast Guard has suspended the search of two boaters who went missing off the west coast of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-94771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}