VALE, Ore. -- Investigators are saying GPS may have led a man astray in Malheur County, prompting a week-long search that ended with the discovery of his body.
The Argus Observer reports the Malheur County Sheriff's Office concluded its investigation, and Sheriff Brian Wolfe says 69-year-old Silas Wrigley appears to have missed the turn to Lake Owyhee based on GPS information.
Wolfe said investigators cannot prove it, but that it looks like Wrigley followed his recalculated GPS route to a remote dirt road where his truck was found. He had been near Succor Creek on an extended fishing trip.
The search began Aug. 22
Malheur County Search and Rescue exceeded its $6,000 annual budget by about $1,000 in what Wolfe says was the longest search he can remember in 17 years.
