Car accident killed SD girls missing since 1971

AP via twincities.com ^ | 04/15/2014 | Carson Walker

[BBell]

ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — Two South Dakota girls on their way to an end-of-school-year party at a gravel pit in May 1971 drove off a country road and into a creek where their remains lay hidden until last fall when a drought brought their car into view, authorities said Tuesday.

[BBell]

It's sad the one girl's dad died 5 days before the car was found

[2ndDivisionVet]

And merciful at the same time.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

He knew 5 days sooner than had he lived.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hope it doesn't take as long to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

[Vigilanteman]

Interesting point . . . and true.

[Tijeras_Slim]

It’s gonna take a heck of a drought to uncover 370.

[Gumdrop]

This story first appeared on the internet about 10 days ago.

[wideawake]

Maybe.

It might have been better to know that she died in a sudden accident and was possibly unconscious, rather than being abducted or abused.

Who knows what conclusion he had come to in his mind.

[Gay State Conservative]

Saw this story somewhere recently.Life is tenuous...even for the young.My sister lost her 18 year old daughter to a drunk driver 4 days before Christmas.Twenty five years later and she's not even *close* to being “over it”.But these parents not knowing for decades...that had to be even more difficult.

[Loud Mime]

photo at the link

[Loud Mime]

I do not like the part about the zealous investigators trying to pin a murder rap on some jailbird.

I keep saying that I can survive the truth, it’s the lies I worry about.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Well, the IPCC says that could happen.

[cuban leaf]

It’s like losing a limb. You continue on with life, but there is an impact that is always there.

Truth be told, I suspect pretty much every adult has to live with things like this in varying degrees. It’s part of being human.

And accepting Christ really DOES remove burdens. Even this kind. I know from personal experience.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I do not like the part about the zealous investigators trying to pin a murder rap on some jailbird.

Sometimes convenient jailhouse snitches are all they have.

[Chickensoup]

Similar to a case in this area where a woman was missing after a party and many suspected bf of killing her. NO evidence. Her vehicle and body were found in a marsh some years later during a dry spell. She had gone straight ahead on a curve.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, who are we to question?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You learn fast, comrade.

[reg45]

IPCC says that the oceans will rise not fall. They keep prattling on about those unfortunate people on the coasts and on islands who will be drowned.

[al baby]

Dam that screen got real blurry

[erlayman]

In the early 1970’s the annual death toll from traffic accidents was horrendous and I never remember child abduction being a subject of national attention until a decade or so later. Something mechanical or car related must have been the logical assumption.