The body of a Little Suamico man was recovered from the bay of Green Bay on Aug. 24, six weeks after he and his two young children died when their small sailboat capsized on the bay.
A news release from the Marinette County Sheriff’s Department said Billy Salnik, 32, was found shortly after noon Aug. 24 after a boater reported a body in the water near Green Island.
Salnik and his children Joshua, 3, and Charlotte, 5, went sailing from Oconto near the breakwater the evening of July 13 and were last seen near Egg Harbor and Green Island.
They were supposedly headed for Rileys Bay, an inlet on Green Bay just west of Sturgeon Bay, before a line of storms hit the area. A family member posted on Facebook they were last seen at Green Island around 5 p.m. July 13.
The children’s bodies were found July 15 in the water just south of Chambers Island near Fish Creek, but there had been no further sign of Salnik until last weekend.
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