UPDATED Saturday, November 7, 2009 --- 7:00 a.m.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a body found Thursday afternoon on the north shore of Lake Superior was that of a missing missing kayaker and former Milwaukee school teacher.

Lake County Sheriff Carey Johnson says Friday that the medical examiner confirms the body is that of 48-year-old Douglas R. Winter. The official cause of death has not been determined.

The body was recovered just north of Two Harbors in the Flood Bay area, roughly where searchers expected to find it given the wave patterns of the past few weeks.

Winter was last heard from about 8:40 p.m. on Oct. 19, when he called a friend to say he was two to three miles from shore and the waves were getting bigger.

His kayak washed ashore Oct. 20 in the Beaver Bay area.

Information from
Duluth News Tribune
http://www.duluthsuperior.com

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Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 --- 8:35 p.m.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- A search for a Milwaukee kayaker who went missing while paddling along the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota came up empty on Sunday.

A dispatcher for the Lake County sheriff's office says the search for 48-year-old Douglas Winter was over before 4 p.m.

On Saturday morning, authorities believe they found Winter's life jacket on the lake shore near Split Rock Lighthouse.

The faded orange life jacket contained a prescription pill bottle in one of the pockets that was tied to Winter, who has been missing since Tuesday.

The life jacket was found about five miles southwest of Cove Point Lodge in Beaver Bay, the resort where Winter stayed Sunday and Monday nights.

Winter's kayak was found Tuesday afternoon a few miles further southwest of the lighthouse.

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