Many criminal movies have demonstrated how easily people can make other people disappear by dumping their bodies in water. But is it really fact or fiction?
Well it turns out that it does happen very often in real life. And this the volunteer search group has stumbled across quite a number of them. Most recently, they discovered three human remains in a car they recovered from a retention pond in South Florida.
The volunteer group is the Sunshine State Sonar and the brain behind the outfit started doing it as a hobby. The group has reached out to the Sunrise Police Department of their discovery.
They found the car while searching for a different vehicle linked to the unrelated cold case of a missing woman. According to Sunshine State Sonar, there were three bodies in the car, and it was located in a 24-foot deep retention pond in front of the Sawgrass Mills Mall in the city of Sunshine.
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“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims’ families,” the group shared in a Facebook post. Sunrise police spokeswoman Otishia Browning-Smith said Monday January 8 that the department aided the recovery of the Oldsmobile from the pond.
The car’s last registeration date was in 2005, according to Browning-Smith. She also said she was unable to confirm how many bodies were in the car. However she said investigators are running tests on the remains to help identify who they are and that the investigation is open and ongoing.
No other details were immediately available. This is not the first time the volunteer group is making such a discovery. Earlier this month, Sunshine State Sonar found a missing woman in a retention pond near Disney.
It helped authorities in solving a cold case from more than 13 years ago. The group uses sonar to find cars in Florida’s bodies of water. Then they dive to check if the vehicles contain human remains or match missing-persons cases.
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In April 2023, they found the body of a 70-year-old Florida middle school teacher that had been missing for about two and a half years. His vehicle was completely submerged in a canal shielded from view by thick trees.
At the time, Michael Sullivan of Sunshine State Sonar revealed that he began spending his free time searching for missing people in Florida in June 2022.
According to Sullivan, “There’s a huge need for this” because the police don’t have the resources. This means that people can go missing for five or 10 years, and family members get no answers.
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He says that Florida has many bodies of water where cars can easily disappear. And that he has come across dozens of cars while conducting searches for the missing. Most police agencies don’t have the time or equipment to undertake such searches but Sullivan says he can do it with equipment he bought to enjoy in his free time.
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