The family of a St. Charles man who went missing on the Meramec River three weeks ago has returned to the area to continue their search efforts and is renewing pleas for help from the public.
They have issued new missing posters for 25-year-old Jon “Jay” Franklin, which can be downloaded from their Facebook page or from the link in this story, and asked those wishing to assist them to print and distribute the fliers.
Franklin was on a float trip with a group of friends when he went missing near Eureka on May 31, just before storms set in that evening. He has brown eyes and brown hair, and was last seen wearing green and white swim trunks.
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Over the last several weeks, family, friends and community members have participated in daily air, boat and foot searches stretching from Eureka down to Arnold. The family briefly returned to their home in Peoria, Ill., last week before returning to resume the search this weekend.
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