Two Cars pulled from lake 40 years later

Strange they never dragged the lake around that ramp.

The two cars were found side-by side in 12ft of water. The remains were discovered when the vehicles were hauled to the surface.
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Let's hope those poor kids couldn't see that other car in their last moments. Doesn't bear thinking about.
 
It's just a very odd synchronicity that two cars from 2 decades apart were found together at the same time. The picture of the two of them was chilling.

And with only 12 feet of water I would think some fisherman would have seen at least their outlines ...
 

Diwundrin said:
Strange they never dragged the lake around that ramp.



Let's hope those poor kids couldn't see that other car in their last moments. Doesn't bear thinking about.
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Dragging the lake might have cost the police department more than was in their budget, but there also may have been bad blood between authorities and families of the victims found in the older of the two vehicles. Police got away with a lot more, back in the 1950's, so they may have given the families a little lip service, then went back to manning speed traps without giving it a second thought.

Police are under much more scrutiny, now, than was common in the 1950's.

The local constabulary might have been written off the teens as runaways, in 1970.
 
Amazing story, I've been following it. Horrible way to die, but as stated above the families now know what happened and can get some closure at last.
 
SifuPhil said:
It's just a very odd synchronicity that two cars from 2 decades apart were found together at the same time. The picture of the two of them was chilling.

And with only 12 feet of water I would think some fisherman would have seen at least their outlines ...
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I have to agree. Very strange.
 
Off topic, but it reminded me of of some incidents from my youth, in Rhode Island.
As a life guard in Lincoln Woods State Park, I, along with other guards, used to spend our off-duty hours in an old lime kiln pit, diving off the edge of the walls, 30 feet high, into the almost infinitely deep water.
About 20 feet down in the water was a ledge, which then dropped off to another 70 feet of water.

This was in the mid 1950's, a time when the mafia was in control of much of Rhode Island crime, and some of the government.
The head of the crime mob was Ray Patriarca, and the center of his activity was Federal Hill in Providence... just a few miles from the state park.
Interesting history of Patriarca here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_L.S._Patriarca

Anyway, we knew some of the mob, who came to our pond to swim and sell bootleg cigarettes. You just didn't fool around with these guys, even though some of them were pretty nice and friendly. Twice, during those 4 years, one of our guards dove off the edge of "Lime Kiln", and found a car on the "ledge"... cars with mob victims in them. The police were never able to pin the hits on Patriarca, but we sure knew. :)

Sorry for the thread highjack, but when memories come back, ya just wanna share them. :)
 
TWHRider said:
I can't get the link to open (I think the Microsoft tech put some pretty strong blockers on, that I'm not going to mess with), but I think that's the same thing I saw on the local news a night or two back.

Who knows why nobody went looking for them. Crooked cops, cops that were complacent and too busy eating Dunkin' Donuts -- hard to say.

The county I lived much of my life in, had a deputy coroner that was a crooked as a dog's hind leg. It used to amaze me how many "suicides" he ruled on, yet no weapons were ever found in the house, much less somewhere around the body. We also lived less than an hour from Youngstown, OH which infamously carried the a/k/a moniker of "Little Chicago" and rightly so.
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Law enforcement cannot deny the existence of this evidence. The police department could find themselves trying to explain how these cars went undiscovered for so long.

Their explanation would be fascinating to not only read or hear, but to watch. It would be interesting to see if they are shaken by and worried about this discovery.

How many authors and reporters are already cooking up book and film deals with this turn of events?

If the case jumps to center stage, triggered by an investigation, that police department's actions could reveal personal stories that no one in reality based entertainment could pass up. A former officer may see those dollar signs and spill the beans. Old wounds opening up could yield a huge cash crop on the backs of two terrible crimes and the inexcusable negligence, to say the least, of not only the police force, but other people who must have known about the cars being there, and how they got there.

Do you think there will be an investigation? If so, do you think anyone who worked in the police department, between the first disappearance and today, be charged with being accessories, after the fact, to murder??
 
Share away Tom, stories are always good. :D

Reality is probably less exciting than that MercyL, more likely the older fellow had a senior moment and missed the reverse gear. Youngsters in a showy car were probably hoonin' around and didn't realise that the boat ramp wasn't a road with a puddle in it.

You've all seen the ad right?

Still strange that they weren't found for so long though.
 
Getting creepy now.

There are probably quite a few cars with stories submerged all over the place.

I was overtaken and nearly run off the road by a speeding psycho on the highway near here a few decades ago now. It was on the outskirts of a town but he didn't even touch the brakes! About 2K the other side of it we came across 3 cars and a truck parked on a sharpish bend and people running towards the river bank.

There was a very neat, car sized gap torn in the scrub between the road and the river. I figured the water would have slowed him up a bit and kept going. Nothing my mum and I could have done to help, and to be honest I didn't much care beyond hoping it was just him in the car.

Had that stretch of road been empty at the time, and others not seen him go in, that car could still have been in the Nambucca River, it's a deep one.
 
Compared to a lot of you I am not far from there.
All I know about the case is what I have read online.
The teens as I understand from some of the reports were headed the other direction some twenty mile or so from the lake. So to me it is understandable why the lake would not be suspect.
The water was defined as murky, in murky water you an not see more than a few inches.
The pictures that I saw the cars were covered with what looked like silt or mud. That suggest to me that they had settled in mud and silt and would not be seen very easy. I doubt you could even see them if you were ten inches from them. It seems the remains were not found right away. I would suspect this to mean they where searching the cars when they where found. Which suggest an honest attempt to investigate. The nature of lakes and bodies of water I am familiar with It would be hard to if not impossible to see anything at that depth. The survivors of the older folks have been using that ramp on that lake for years
As for the older people in the other car. I understand it was common for them to drive around that particular lake, What attempts were made at the time of dissapearance I have not read but it is easy for me to understand how the cars could remain hidden for so long.
 

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