Police Find 5 Skeletons, 2 Cars Missing For Decades On Oklahoma Lake Bottom

Breitbart ^ | September 18, 2013 | Dan Riehl

[VeniVidiVici]

Police testing new sonar equipment during a training exercise at Foss Lake in Oklahoma discovered five skeletons inside a blue 1969 Chevy Camaro and a 1950s-era vehicle perhaps linked to the early 1960's disappearance of a couple.

[Oatka]

dailymail goes deeper into the story

Thanks for the link. As you said, lotta detail.

[TXnMA]

That's an active launching ramp, with a road running straight into it. No warning signs, rumble strips or pavement markings are visible on Google Earth.

To have a look for yourself, just enter (or COPY / PASTE) these coordinates

35.535505° -99.194569°

into the "fly to" field on Google Earth, and click the "go to" icon at the right.

That marina cove is obviously a favorite crappie fishing area: look at all the (cedar?) trees sunk in the two lateral sub-coves as fish attractors...

My guess is that the two cars were somewhere between the boat sitting perpendicular to the ramp in the May 9, 2012 overflight image, and the end of the ramp, itself.

There is also a cluster of man-made debris (sunken boathouse?) not far to the ENE of the ramp end, as well.

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Macabre thought: Those auto hulks probably were fish attractors as well...

[Jane Long]

Too bad they don’t have a photo of the ‘69 Camaro. Wonder if it’s restorable.

Really? Since it's been the *grave* of missing loved ones for 43 years, um, no thanks.

[dfwgator]

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

[TXnMA]

"What the heck are police doing with sonar??? "

You've "run off into the deep end" of the "anti-LEO pool", yourself.

LE agencies are often called on to do recovery searches for victims of accidents on local bodies of water. Equipping them with the best tools for that onerous task makes excellent sense...

[TXnMA]

See my #42.

Kids running around at speed at night — perfect, deadly trap...

[Blood of Tyrants]

I would guess that they accidentally rolled down the ramp and could not open the doors or windows, panicked and drowned.

[Wagonboy]

Scanning Google Earth of Foss Lake Reservoir where they pulled these two cars out, near the southern end of the dam and E.N.E. of the boat ramp, there appears to be two dark shadows side-by side in the water just off small point, There's also an old, unmaintained dirt road that looks like it may have gone all the way out to the end of that point. My guess is both of these cars drove off the point in the dark or where pushed off by another vehicle. The windows are opened or broken... None of the occupants tried to escape? Or where they dead when the cars were sent over the edge?
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