Posted on 09/04/2025 7:21:11 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than 90 cars were reported found in the Chicago River system on Wednesday.
CBS News Chicago rode along Wednesday with Chaos Divers, the dive crew searching for the cars.
The Chaos Divers team travels the country looking for cars involved in cold cases. This week, they have been traveling the Chicago River system — from Diversey Parkway on the North Branch to Cicero Avenue on the Sanitary and Ship Canal.
"We have 10 missing persons cases in Chicago," said Chaos Divers manager Lindsay Bussick. "But our focus is Edward and Stephania Andrews."
It was May 15, 1970 — more than 55 years ago — when Edward and Stephania Andrews, both 62, left a cocktail party at a Sheraton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. They got in their car and were never seen again.
But as the Chaos Divers team were looking for the husband and wife, they came across dozens of other cars.
"Once we kind of reached that like 50, you know, 60 number point, it was kind of, 'OK, this is even a little more than we had expected to find,'" said Bussick.
Bussick said the Chaos Divers found more than 90 cars in the depths of the Chicago River system over the past few days. To find the cars, the dive team uses a command center equipped with sonar so they can see the cars before they dive in.
If they locate a car, they could pull it out themselves. But on Wednesday afternoon, they called Chicago police to pull out a Nissan sedan that Bussick said was damaging boats.
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“I am waiting for Geraldo Rivera. He will find something I hope.”
only if any of the cars still have a license plate on them ...
If they haven’t found the weighted-down bodies they haven’t been diving deep enough.
Maybe volunteers from Vegas help them out.
If they haven’t found the weighted-down bodies they haven’t been diving deep enough.
Maybe volunteers from Vegas help them out.
When they find a bunch of dinosaur bones in an old river bed, scientists assume they got caught in a flood. They might need to rethink that.
No, thats not how we did it.
Er, I meant...
Thats a good theory of yours.
I wonder what some of these cars date back to. Possibly from the 1930s-1950s?
That sounds like a very interesting job.
Ah, yes. If they pull out an old VW Bug and dry it out, it may start right up.
An empty vault.
How many times did Teddy Kennedy visit Chitcago?
I am still looking for my SCOUT II International stolen in 1994.
I often hear of water filled quarries found to contain stolen cars. Often cars with skeletons are found submerged at the end of a boat ramp.
These are those guys, or at least one of the groups.
I guess in Chicago they do sleep with the fishes .
Jimmy Hoffa?
Chaos Divers has a youtube channel where they post videos of their searches and finds.
You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
Song by Jim Croce ‧ 1972
https://youtu.be/FMjzKKcz_ew?feature=shared
Uptown got it’s hustlers
The bowery got it’s bums
42nd street got big Jim Walker
He’s a pool shootin’ son of a gun
Yeah, he’s big and dumb as a man can come
But he’s stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call big Jim boss, just because
And they say
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim
Well, outta south Alabama came a country boy
He said I’m lookin’ for a man named Jim
I am a pool shootin’ boy
My name’s Willie McCoy
But down home, they call me Slim
Yeah, I’m lookin’ for the king of 42nd street~~~~~~
He drivin’ a drop top cadillac~~~~~
Last week, he took all my money
And it may sound funny
But I come to get my money back
And everybody say, Jack uh, don’t you know
And you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim
Well, a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come boppin’ in off the street
And when the cuttin’ were done
The only part that wasn’t bloody
Was the soles of the big man’s feet
Yeah, he was cut in in ‘bout a hundred places
And he was shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sung a different kind of story
When big Jim hit the floor
Now they say
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don’t mess around with Slim
Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it’s at
And it’s not hustlin’ people strange to you
Even if you do got a two-piece custom made pool cue
Yeah, you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off the old lone ranger
And you don’t mess around with Slim
[snip] The Chaos Divers team... looking for cars involved in cold cases... from Diversey Parkway on the North Branch to Cicero Avenue on the Sanitary and Ship Canal... "But our focus is Edward and Stephania Andrews." It was May 15, 1970... both 62, left a cocktail party at a Sheraton Hotel on Michigan Avenue... But as the Chaos Divers team were looking for the husband and wife, they came across dozens of other cars. [/snip]
Enter under 'underwater archaeology'.
[singing] ...the night Chicago died...
Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago...
Hope it wasn’t too far east, or these divers will have to look for that car in Lake Michigan. 😉
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