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Glamorous young couple on kayaking trip found dead after going missing near perilous ‘Death’s Door’

A glamorous young couple from Illinois was found dead near a perilous stretch of water that has been dubbed “Death’s Door” — two days after they vanished on a kayaking trip.

David Thalman, 20, and his sweetheart Franceska Warick, 20, were reported missing Saturday after they were last seen on Lake Michigan near Washington Island, a Wisconsin tourist hotspot.

Their sudden disappearance sparked a frantic three-hour search Saturday night, before the operation became a recovery mission and their bodies were tragically found off the island Monday, Door County sheriffs revealed.

Francesca Warick and David Thalman posing in an interior space with a Christmas tree.
Young couple David Thalman and Francesca Warick looking loved up in a snap shared online days before Christmas. David Thalman/Facebook

Thalman’s body was found at around 10:55 a.m., with Warick’s body discovered shortly after.

Washington Island is located off the Door Peninsula and travelers must cross a five-mile strait dubbed “Death’s Door” to reach the archipelago.

More than 240 shipwrecks have been reported on the strait — which is where Lake Michigan and Green Bay meet — due to strong currents and unpredictable winds, according to the conservationist organization Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands.

Investigators suspect the couple drowned, although a former cause of death hasn’t been confirmed. They are thought to have ventured into the water without life jackets.

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