How does a 16 year old buy a new car? I was 22 and in the service for four years before I could afford one and it sure wasn't a muscle car.
Posted on 10/24/2014 11:23:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
It was 1970 and the night of a football game. Jimmy Allen Williams was 16, and he was probably on top of the world.
Just six days earlier, he got himself a blue 1969 Camaro with a white top, considered a primo muscle car back then. And what better way to help break in his new wheels than by taking a drive with a couple of friends?
So 18-year-olds Leah Gail Johnson and Thomas Michael Rios — fellow residents with Williams of Sayre, Oklahoma — piled into the sports car and the trio were supposedly headed for the game.
They were never heard from again.
And this wasn’t the first such disappearance in Sayre. Just a year before 69-year-old John Alva Porter was in a green ’52 Chevy with Cleburn Hammack, 42, and Nora Marie Duncan, 58. The car needed a push to help get it started, and that was the last time anyone saw them.
But just over a year ago when Oklahoma Highway Patrol was conducting a sonar test in murky Foss Lake, officers turned up two cars — a blue 1969 Camaro and a green 1952 Chevy, both with human remains inside.
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Very sad story.... those poor families in agony never knowing what happened to their loved ones :-(
Didn’t read the article. But it looks like town has a killer on their hands. Someone gone now? Or still around.......
Two sets of people disappeared, one a group of teens. Their cars ran off the road and the people all died from drowning. Their cars weren’t discovered until decades later at the bottom of a lake and the families never knew what had happened to them all.
We should outlaw lakes. They’re killers.
How does a 16 year old buy a new car? I was 22 and in the service for four years before I could afford one and it sure wasn't a muscle car.
Can I also use your time machine?
That’s what the article says at least.
Surprise, they found the car of a woman who had been missing for over a decade.
All those years of the family wondering what happened to her, and they probably drove over the bridge countless times.
Never even imagining that their loved one was down there all that time.
I hear ya. And while were at it, we should pass emissions standards on volcanoes and fine the ones that blow their tops.
Sad story. I marvel that some lakes aren’t routinely surveyed by divers. At least sections.
What was the deal there? A “dead mans’s curve” over a cliff above a deep spot in the lake? One wonders. If so, maybe they should looked there years ago.
I was the same age as those kids that year. We were “baby boomers”. A couple of guys in my school were gifted with brand new cars on their 16th birthday. They thought they were hot stuff.
Just jumped in here, have they found any semen?
Said they looked like accidents.
Inside the car were the skeletal remains of Milt Pappas's wife. She had probably become disoriented and driven into into the pond. At the time, the housing development was in the early stages, and nothing was marked clearly. Plus, it was raining the night she disappeared, and most likely she didn't realize where she was. The pond is not real deep, but it is murky. You never know sometimes.
Part time job and living at home - I bought a '69 Firebird at the age of 17 - didn't have money for much else but did have a car...
I can understand a kid in his Camaro getting enough air to launch himself good and far into a lake but how the hell does an old geezer fully submerge his barely breathing geezer mobile...and then no one else does it in almost 50 years?
The road was unstriped and curved around the lake. Driving one direction, the road goes left but you go straight to the boat ramp. Dark road, dark night and they drove right into the lake. Panick set in and they never even got the doors open.
I want to die in my sleep like grandpa, not like the screaming people in his car as it went over the cliff!!
Most lakes,ponds,and rivers aren’t crystal clear ;once in the water the car continues sliding deeper until something stops it. Many bodies of water have enough suspended particles that you cannot see your fingers at the end of your arm if stuck into the water.
I have little doubt there are hundreds more cars and trucks hidden underwater as a result of driver error or confusion on a dark or rainy night. There were two cars driven into Brookville Lake in Indiana at night by drivers unfamiliar with the area ;evidently drove down the boat ramp by mistake.How many others might have done it but weren’t seen?
Ever notice how many roads are near water with nothing to stop a car?
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