3rd body recovered at Dillon Falls near Bend after inner tube accident

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The third and final person missing from a group that went over Dillon Falls in July was recovered on Thursday.

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office identified Derek Slesinger as the last person to be recovered.

Six people went over Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River around 3 p.m. on July 19. Officials said the group was floating on inner tubes tied together when they hit the rapids. Three of them jumped from their tubes and made it to shore while the other three were swept away and died.

Authorities identified the two other floaters as Amanda Lloyd of Rockwall, Texas and Lindsay Bashan of Parkland, Florida. Lloyd had just turned 40 days before the incident. Bashan was 33. Their bodies were recovered just days after the incident.