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Volunteer divers find 32 submerged cars in Doral lake, possibly linked to missing persons cold cases. (Florida )
WSVN ^ | August 6, 2023 | Franklin White, Rubén Rosario

Posted on 08/07/2023 4:00:37 PM PDT by george76

A diving team that took to the water in Doral has uncovered not just one underwater mystery, but nearly three dozen.

Underwater video captured a diver finding a vehicle in the murky waters of a lake located near Miami International Airport.

Divers Ken Fleming and Doug Bishop spoke with 7News about their finds on Sunday.

“We’re here trying to solve missing persons cold cases,” said Fleming.

The mission led these divers to Doral in an effort to detect ditched vehicles.

“That’s when we realized that we had 32 cars underwater,” said Fleming.

Fleming said the vehicles were dumped in this body of water during various criminal activities.

“When we discover a spot like this with multiple vehicles, it pretty much indicates that a crime where they’re disposing the vehicles and hiding them from law enforcement,” he said.

The divers work solely as volunteers. They travel across the state, using sonar technology to search bodies of water.

“We have a giant database of our own that we extract, where we go, ‘This person is missing with their vehicle in this general region of South Florida,'” said Fleming, “and so, we have 40 that we’re targeting right now of folks that disappeared, anywhere from two or three months ago to 30, 40 years ago.”

On this current mission, the divers’ research brought them to an area near Northwest 87th Avenue and 13th Terrace, where, they said, nearly three dozen cars are at the bottom of a lake.

The divers are hoping for a critical clue in an unsolved crime.

“We have a case where someone drove from Pinellas County down to pick up their relatives at the airport, and then they disappeared,” said Fleming, “so, in this spot, we’re near the airport, it’s a large body of water, it has easy access to get into, so we would target that as a potential foul play spot.”

Statewide, the team said, they have found 60 submerged vehicles to date that are possibly linked to crimes.

When asked why they do this, the divers said that for them, the answer is simple.

“It’s about providing answers for families where they don’t have them,” said Bishop. “Departments, respectfully, have to justify their use of resources, and when a case goes cold, we have the ability to step in. We don’t have to justify our use of resources, and we can help eliminate the drag on personnel locally. We can do this, we specialize in it, we can do it on a high level and do so as volunteers.”

The divers’ next step is to work with Miami-Dade County to remove all 32 vehicles. They said they will give any information they find to police to hopefully help in any cold cases.

Sunday afternoon, a spokesperson for Doral Police issued a statement that reads, “We have been informed that a private search company possibly located multiple sunken vehicles in the area of 9064 NW 13th Terr. Although we cannot confirm at this time, we will continue to gather further information in the coming days and work with multiple entities to investigate this matter.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crime; fl; florida
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1 posted on 08/07/2023 4:00:37 PM PDT by george76
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DeSantis Body Count?


2 posted on 08/07/2023 4:02:04 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: george76

Potential foul play.


3 posted on 08/07/2023 4:02:13 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: george76

Just think of what explorers could find if the search for the Loch Ness Monster was in New Jersey.


4 posted on 08/07/2023 4:02:39 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: george76

Are there 32-plus bodies in those cars?


5 posted on 08/07/2023 4:03:14 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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6 posted on 08/07/2023 4:04:10 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: george76

And they thought lake Mead was bad.

Florida’s starting to look like a crime zone.


7 posted on 08/07/2023 4:06:10 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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No one thought to look n the lake on the first missing person, hence 37 cars later..................barney miller has more sense, even barney fife


8 posted on 08/07/2023 4:08:10 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: george76

John Prine’s Bottomless Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sw4IVrXfCo


9 posted on 08/07/2023 4:08:14 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: george76

Call the EPA.


10 posted on 08/07/2023 4:09:25 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: george76

Jimmy Hoffa auto?


11 posted on 08/07/2023 4:14:27 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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“...possibly linked to cold cases”

Or...they all just had no sense of direction.


12 posted on 08/07/2023 4:14:51 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Soooo-—lemmee sumarize: florida cops never look in he water. They never run to the sound of the gunfire. They don’t have time to round up nut cases. They wouldn’t let Trump put up a flag pole. But, by yimminney the put the pressure on and tracked the owner of the Patriots to a massage parlor.


13 posted on 08/07/2023 4:15:23 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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There's a group that's done a number of youtube videos where they send divers into lakes and rivers looking for the cars of people who've disappeared.It's pretty powerful stuff. But I read recently that a member of the group was charged with some kind of crime...kiddie porn IIRC.
14 posted on 08/07/2023 4:17:31 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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Hillary is probably guilty so we’ll get another Trump indictment in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .


15 posted on 08/07/2023 4:18:32 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Bernard

Easy, fella. -OGINJ


16 posted on 08/07/2023 4:20:47 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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kiddie porn

That seems to be the go-to solution for the powers-that-be when someone is getting to close to uncovering corruption.
17 posted on 08/07/2023 4:22:08 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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"That seems to be the go-to solution for the powers-that-be when someone is getting too close to uncovering corruption. "

With the tech capabilities of the NSA and the CIA, it's a pretty easy for them to frame someone by remotely accessing their computer and downloading kiddie porn onto it and the showing up for an "investigation."

18 posted on 08/07/2023 4:29:40 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: Beowulf9

Followed gps straight into the water like the other idiots driving down boat launches into the water and acting surprised to find water at a boat launch.


19 posted on 08/07/2023 4:30:54 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: wildcard_redneck

That’s exactly what the FBI tried to do to Sharyl Attkisson’s husband after they hacked her computer.


20 posted on 08/07/2023 4:34:55 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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