[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.

[Gumdrop]

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

[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]

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.

[G Larry]

Intersting parallel for me.

6 June 1971, graduation night, a friend and I had stopped at a gravel pit, waiting for friends to pass by, as one was headed home and the other needed a ride back.

After too long a delay, we went looking for them, only to find their car on it’s top, having flown and flipped a couple times. But they were nowhere to be found.

Now sunrise, we fould footprints in the sand that led to a farmhouse where the couple shaken but safe.

3 of us entered the service in the succeeding weeks and it was 30 years before I heard the rest of the story, which is only of personal interest.

[The Great RJ]

I was attending college in South Dakota when this happened and remember that authorities quickly followed the most outlandish stories about their disappearance... them running off to California, joining a hippy commune etc. My college roommate at the time drove a Studebaker and was actually stopped and questioned by police. If authorities had seriously followed up with witnesses who said the girls had been following them. When they missed the turn off to the gravel pit and turned around they no longer saw the girl's car. That would have reduced the initial search to perhaps a half mile of road and maybe would have prompted someone to search the creek or at least look for signs they had gone off the gravel road.

My wife and I visited the site shortly after the car was uncovered. It is not uncommon in this part of the country for farmers to have used wrecked cars to halt stream erosion so the presence of a wrecked car in the creek would have conceivably gone unnoticed for years. We both agreed that what may have prompted the fisherman to contact authorities about the car was the discovery of two long lost cars in a lake in Oklahoma a few weeks before that solved two cold case disappearances. What was strange was that a home had been built about 20 years ago literally across the road from where the car was found and for all those years the owners never notices anything.

[madison10]

...they blamed and imprisoned David Lykken for a murder he obviously did NOT commit.

[Mears]

This is so sad.

.

[TomServo]

I swear - who writes these headlines?

C- J-School grads - that’s who.