FL - Ghostly, sunken cars lie in Florida's canals and lakes, hiding lost lives

[Brubeck]

Sunken cars can hold tragic secrets in Florida's waterways

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ghostly, sunken cars lie in South Florida's canals and lakes, hiding lost lives — sometimes for decades.
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Broward Sheriff's Deputy Alexander Beer, the agency's chief diver, says when the Everglades are factored in, there are lots of watery places for someone to vanish.

"I see water and all I think is, when people want to hide something or dispose of something or throw something away they don't want anybody else to find, it goes in the water," Beer said. "There are enough canals in the area and they chuck it and they assume that nobody is ever going to look in there. But we do."
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[KariKae]

And not just cases where somebody deliberately sunk a car to hide evidence...Sometimes it was just an accident (i.e. Foss Lake in OK).

 

[AllWhoWanderAreNotLost27]

wow this is so eerie to imagine.

 

[MaryG12]

Very creepy but sadly true.

That Surya Sari-Prihatin missing person case is so tragic - but am glad her husband was charged for murdering her. The article also mentions Harry Wade Atchison III and Dana Null.

To top that off, just think of the risk LE and those who reel cars out of water have to take - having to prevent from becoming alligator food while securing leads on missing persons.

Florida. \:/

 

[Brubeck]

 

[MaryG12]

^
I don't think I've ever seen "Night of the Hunter" (1955). That is one REALLY creepy scene! :O I'll have to look for it, I like Robert Mitchum.

 

[Brubeck]

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I don't think I've ever seen "Night of the Hunter" (1955). That is one REALLY creepy scene! :O I'll have to look for it, I like Robert Mitchum.

It's a great, greatly disturbing, movie.

 

[MaryG12]

It's a great, greatly disturbing, movie.

Then it's right up my alley.

 

[Mysteries1974]

Its so sad that so many people end up in those Canals. The families of Dana Null and Harry Wade Atchison hoped that they were alive until January 23rd 2015, when their car was found in pieces in a sunrise canal about a half a mile from where they were last seen. Ive considered the possibility that a Florida Woman missing since 1975 may have driven into one of those canals. Hoping for a resolution in these cases.