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The family of 63-year-old Jerry Morgan, who went missing early Thursday morning while kayaking off Tavares Beach on Maui, has set up a GoFundMe to raise funds to continue searching for him.

The family of 63-year-old Jerry Morgan, who went missing early Thursday morning while kayaking off Tavares Beach on Maui, has set up a GoFundMe to raise funds to continue searching for him.

On Saturday, the US Coast Guard suspended the active search for a kayaker who has been missing since Thursday morning off Tavares Beach on Maui.

Jerry Morgan, 63, of Kula was reported missing on Wednesday night Oct. 4, 2023 by his family, after failing to return home from kayaking earlier in the day.

A missing kayaker from Louisiana has been arrested for faking his own death by drowning in an apparent bid to dodge rape charges, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office. Melvin Phillip Emde, 41, was arrested by authorities in Georgia over a month after his son, Seth, allegedly reported him missing. Emde's son allegedly told police his father fell out of a kayak and drowned while on the Mississippi River in Hahnville, Louisiana, according to the St. Charles Parish Sherif...

Melvin Phillip Emde's son told authorities his father drowned in Louisiana

Melvin Phillip Emde was arrested in Georgia on Sunday, more than a month after the sex crimes suspect reportedly drowned in the Mississippi River.

Missing kayaker arrested in Georgia after faking his own death by drowning in St. Charles Parish

The family of a kayaker who went missing when a storm hit Kalamalka Lake has ended their search and are making plans to lay their loved one to rest.

The family is now pinning their hopes on Gene and Sandy Ralston, an American couple who specializes in recovering drowned victims using side scan sonar equipment.