[lowbridge]

Full title: Discovery at the Bottom of a Murky Lake Unravels a Mystery That’s Been Haunting Tiny Town for Decades

[Tamzee]

Very sad story.... those poor families in agony never knowing what happened to their loved ones :-(

[Berlin_Freeper]

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/10/21/Car-iof-missing-man-found-in-retention-pond.html

[2ndDivisionVet]

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.

[BradyLS]

Sad story. I marvel that some lakes aren’t routinely surveyed by divers. At least sections.

[driftless2]

Many years ago the wife of major league pitcher Milt Pappas disappeared while going on an errand one night near her suburban Chicago home. Many years later workmen were draining a pond in a housing development in Wheaton, Ill. The pond was located close to one of my sister's homes. I had stared into that pond a number of times while visiting my sister. What I never saw in the murky depths was a car. But a car was there. And when the workmen drained the pond the car was distinctly visible.

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.

[TalBlack]

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?

[stylecouncilor]

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