For some reason I’m fascinated by this story. South Florida has thousands of square miles of artificial canals and lakes criscossing both well and lightly traveled roads. Heavy rain could obliterate any tire tracks quickly. No one swims in these bodies of water...very dark, murky and mucky, alligator possibility, and the dark water absorbs heat, so 95° in the summer.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1997-03-02-9703010383-story.html
Story of 5 teens missing since 1979, found in submerged van in 1997.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-pompano-body-car-canal-20141119-story.html
Guess I’m obsessed with these stories. Grew up on the Detroit River where you could scare yourself silly thinking about finding a body while boating or swimming. Many Detroit homicides ended up in the vicinity downriver.
When I lived in Gainesville, GA, everyone knew this story, “The Lady of the Lake (Lanier)”. By sheer coincidence, the footprint for the pillar of a new bridge encased the whole car, so was taken up whole, as I recall.
“In April 1958, Lake Lanier claimed its most famous victim, Susie Roberts, long since known as Lake Lanier’s Lady of the Lake. Roberts lost control of her car and crashed off the right abutment of Lanier Bridge on Dawsonville Highway. Her car came to rest in ninety feet of water, on a steep slope at the base of the bridge, caught in the deadfall of sheered-off tree trunks that comprise the Lake Lanier bottom.
A year after the accident in 1959, divers discovered the body of Delia Mae Parker Young, believed to be a passenger in Susie Roberts’ car, but could never locate the car or remains of Miss Roberts.
“With visibility being almost zero at that depth, Roberts remained undiscovered until November 1990 when construction on the new Lanier Bridge expansion was underway. Construction crews found Roberts car while dredging out the lake bottom to set the foundation pillars for the new bridge.”