What started as a fun day at the lake for one recent Iowa high school prom king and graduate soon turned into a tragedy. On Wednesday, 17-year-old Ayden Beeson was swimming in Rathbun Lake in Moravia when he suddenly vanished beneath the shallow water.
According to a news release from the Appanoose County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook, the Appanoose County Law Center received a 911 call from someone at 6:13 p.m.
about a possible drowning. They said the teenager just “went under the water and had not resurfaced.” Police immediately raced over to the scene with a rescue crew.
Unfortunately, it was not until over an hour later that the Appanoose County Water Rescue found his body in around 15 to 20 feet of water.
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