8 people dead from capsized boat in Lake Tahoe storm identified by El Dorado coroner
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- El Dorado County Coroner identified all 8 victims from Lake Tahoe boat accident.
- Boat capsized in Lake Tahoe during sudden storm; 2 people survived and hospitalized.
- Search and recovery included the U.S. Coast Guard and fire units.
Five of the eight people who died after their boat flipped Saturday in Lake Tahoe were from Northern California, and three were from upstate New York, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office.
The Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Division identified the eight people who died in a suddenly intensified thunderstorm Saturday as Paula Bozinovich, 71, and Terry Pickles, 73, both of Redwood City; Joshua Antony Pickles, 37, of San Francisco; Peter Bayes, 72, of Lincoln; Timothy O’Leary, 71, of Auburn; Theresa Giullari, 66, and James Guck, 69, both of Honeoye, New York; and Stephen Lindsay, 63, of Springwater, New York.
The 27-foot Chris-Craft vessel they were in capsized Saturday afternoon amid rough conditions on the High Sierra lake. Two fellow boaters survived and were taken to a hospital that day.
The release of their names Tuesday morning came a day after the Sheriff’s Office said the body of the last missing boater has been found by a search team near D.L. Bliss State Park.
The Sheriff’s Office news release credited recovery efforts over the past four days to the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Forest Service, California State Parks, the state Office of Emergency Services, North Tahoe Fire, South Lake Tahoe Police, South Lake Tahoe Fire, Tahoe Douglas Fire, North Lake Tahoe Fire, the Lake Valley Fire Department, Wilderness Finder Search Dog Teams and the sheriff’s offices of San Joaquin County and Washoe County, Nevada.
This story was originally published June 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM with the headline "8 people dead from capsized boat in Lake Tahoe storm identified by El Dorado coroner."
