Glamorous young couple on kayaking trip found dead after going missing near perilous Deaths Door stretch

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.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.Jane Lee, Thalman’s former boss at a Re/Max office in Lake Bluff, told Fox32 that she knew something was amiss Sunday after he didn’t return her calls from the previous day.Then she received a call from his mom, who told her that he was missing.“That moment I did worry,” she said. Lee paid a glowing tribute to Dundee native Thalman — a promising football star in high school who decided to pursue a career in real estate, rather than study at college.“If you see the reviews from the people, he looked like he’d been doing real estate for 20 years already because he knew what he was doing,” she said. “He’s going to make it very big in this job.” Thalman even told her that he would take her role in the future. “One day he said...