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Veterans Help Solve 22-Year-Old Cold Case in Florida | Military.com
Veterans Ken Fleming and Vern Schutz volunteered their diving services to recover the remains of Mary Lou Combs. (Recon Dive Recovery)
''Shurtz said all organizations working together made the recovery possible.
“Everybody was determined to do all that they could to bring the remains of Mary Lou Combs home,” he said. “It was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen.”
Mired in murky saltwater and muck for 22 years, the Dodge Neon was terribly corroded, adding another challenge for divers.
“When you touch the metal, it just disintegrated into paper, and we realized we were going to need a different tactic,” Fleming said. “No one would have thought that car could have gone 180 feet upstream in the current. It’s changed the way we look at cases; you have to go above and beyond the normal search pattern.”
