{"id":868297,"date":"2026-10-02T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868297\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:42:11","slug":"body-of-preston-county-man-missing-after-boat-mishap-found-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868297\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Preston County man missing after boat mishap found in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rodney-Nieman.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ASHTABULA, OHIO \u2014 The body of a Preston County man who went missing on Lake Erie in August has been found.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-681042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rodney-Nieman-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\"  \/>Rodney Nieman PHOTO: Submitted<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Nieman, 73, of Bruceton Mills, was lost when his boat capsized on Lake Erie near Conneaut, Ohio, on August 12. While Nieman\u2019s wife and a friend were rescued, days turned into weeks searching for Nieman with no trace of him.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard searched 9 nautical square miles of the lake for Nieman. The Ohio DNR assisted as well.<\/p>\n<p>A Cleveland television station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wboy.com\/news\/preston\/body-of-west-virginia-boater-missing-since-august-found-lake-erie-beach\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUr2fhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMWdOdlZwVVFHQjgzbVRUTHBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEehEL8k3jyCngAB9bBxQwCVbI3JYO02Uv_cBYYXdoWXclGwLqenf00_QydGZA_aem_siw4ksQDfX4I8Ggg1NWsQQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received confirmation<\/a> from the Ashtabula County Coroner\u2019s Office that Nieman\u2019s body was located on September 28 in Ashtabula along Walnut Beach. Ashtabula is approximately 15 miles from Conneaut.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what caused the boat to capsize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHTABULA, OHIO \u2014 The body of a Preston County man who went missing on Lake Erie in August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-868297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}