HAGER CITY, Wis. — Searchers found the pickup truck of a missing Red Wing man submerged in the Mississippi River near a boat launch, shifting the search for Brad Nagel, 57, to the river. The search had begun two days after when Nagel failed to show up for a Red Wing Environmental Learning Center event. He had been a field instructor in the center’s youth programs for 35 years. Hundreds of volunteers had searched more than 1.000 square miles before his pickup was located, said Goodhue County Sheriff Marty Kelly in Red Wing. Bagel’s pickup, a 2005 Chevrolet Colorado, was across the river in Wisconsin near Mr. Sippi Marina and Campground. Other vehicles have gone into the river from the same boat launch accidentally over the years. It was a phone ping that led searchers under water to the pickup, Sheriff Kelly said.
Nagel. Well-known to two generations of kids at the non-profit Red Wing Environmental Learning Center.