The Daily Mail reports on the death of 19-year-old Marly Kinney, who drowned in Grayson Lake, Kentucky, on 24 June 2026 after cliff jumping with friends from a sandstone bluff known locally as "Sex Rock". The article centres on an eyewitness account suggesting that a safety warning given to Kinney shortly before her death went unheeded, framing this as a "tragic mistake" that might have saved her.

Kinney and three companions had rented a pontoon boat for an afternoon of swimming and jumping from the 20ft overhang. Bystander Leah Ross, 30, who was supervising her young daughters nearby, said her husband urged Kinney to throw a life jacket into the water below so she could grab it if anything went wrong; Kinney reportedly agreed but did not do so, and the group had no life jackets on them. Kinney survived her first leap and swam back to the boat, but later slipped back into the water and drowned. Cameron Conley, 23, who was driving the boat, was arrested for boating under the influence after she went missing.