A man using sonar to fish in the Mississippi River found a submerged car that belonged to a Minnesota man who’s been missing since 1967, which could close the mystery of his disappearance.
Brody Loch was fishing near Sartell, Minnesota, last weekend when a friend with him caught a walleye.
“When he caught the fish, I turned the transducer around and boom, there it was just sitting on the bottom,” Mr. Loch told Minneapolis TV station WCCO-TV, referring to the car.
The Stearns-Benton County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team responded to the area on Wednesday and fished out the car with the help of a local towing company. The car, a 1960s Buick, was still intact and had human remains inside, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office said.
The recovered car’s vehicle identification number matched the car of missing person Roy Benn, who went missing from Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, in Benton County decades ago, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office said.
Benn, 59 at the time, was last seen alive on Sept. 25, 1967, driving his 1963 Buick Electra and carrying a “large sum of money,” per a missing person’s bulletin put online by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
The multi-county Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating the remains to determine whether they are Benn.
“We’re just grateful that we may likely have finally gotten the break that we needed to bring closure to this family,” Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck, whose office is now leading the investigation, told CNN.
