Lots of people ‘disappear’. 6-7 cases in Dallas County alone in the last 10 years. Never found. Washed into the gulf if the turtles didn’t get em. Water kills.
Alligator in the East Fork and catfish. I suppose rotting flesh is gone halfway down.
There’s an undercurrent (sorry) of local news snips on the web, inclduing YouTube, stories about solved missing persons reports, pretty much always, they drove into a body of water.
e.g. https://search.brave.com/search?q=Foss+Lake+missing+persons
Closer to my home, out here in The Boonies, about 5-10 years ago, a fisherman getting ready to pull his boat out of one of the big inland lakes realized he was standing on the roof of a car. That belonged to a woman who’d worked the late shift and about eight years earlier had never made it home. Apparently not even one thought about where to look. While pulling her out, a diver found a pickup with a recently missing guy inside.
Authorities have finally put up a real barrier. The section line road that leads to the access area is a little spooky to contemplate, when one knows where one is. In daylight, the section line road can be seen continuing some distance away, and the lake isn’t visible because of elevations.