Craig Strickland’s Body Recovered From Oklahoma Lake; Backroad Anthem Singer Was 29

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the body of a missing
country singer from Arkansas who disappeared during a severe storm has been
recovered from an Oklahoma lake.

The patrol says its Marine Enforcement Division recovered
the body of 29-year-old Craig M. Strickland Monday morning in Kaw Lake, located
8 miles east of Ponca City just south of the Oklahoma-Kansas state line.

Strickland and a friend, Chase R. Morland, were reported
missing on Dec. 27 during a duck hunting trip on the Kay County lake. The
pair’s capsized boat was found the same day. Morland’s body was recovered from
the lake a day later.

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Strickland is the lead singer of the Arkansas-based
country-rock band Backroad Anthem. The patrol says Strickland’s body was
recovered within an area known as Bear Creek Cove.