Yahoo Autos Two Cars With Bodies Found In South Florida Canals Revive Cold Cases
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Two separate cars with human remains inside found in different canals in Plantation, Florida revived two cold cases. Those vehicles sat underwater for decades, leaving loved ones and police perplexed. That is until this big break.
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It seems like cars are getting pulled out of bodies of water a lot recently. We credit a few factors, one of them being more advanced sonar and other technologies combined with urban sprawl making once remote areas populated. The result is vehicles which were dumped long ago are now being discovered.
As CBS Miami reported, one of the submerged cars contained the remains of a mother and daughter. They went missing 50 years ago. Likely everyone thought the case would never be solved and we still don’t know if it will. But now we at least know where they’ve been all this time.
Their 1960s Chevy Impala, now a rusting husk, was hoisted out of the river by a tow truck at the order of police. Reportedly, the mother was in a custody battle at the time, threatening to take her and her child’s life if she were to lose custody. It sounds like she made good on that threat.
The other vehicle hidden in a separate canal only blocks away contained a WWII veteran who had been missing for 20 years. Now his family can finally put him to rest instead of wondering what happened to him so long ago.
Sadly, it’s believed he was suicidal as well. It’s sad that in both cases it appears someone thought ending their life in canal was preferable to continuing on with life. The fact a four-year-old girl also died that way is even more horrifying.
We expect to see even more cases of cars hidden away for years, even decades, discovered and removed from bodies of water. Like we said, it seems to be happening constantly these days.
Image via CBS Miami/YouTube
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