Found on GMaps after 22 years

Just have read in the news - remains of a man who has been lost 22 years ago now found by a GMaps spotting.

In 1997 left for an evening drive, but never has returned. Now his car was spotted by someone in one of the pools of Moon Bay Circle, Wellington, FL.

Read story on BBC

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Checking GE TimeSlider it is obvious that all the suburb-quarter was under construction around that time, so as an excellent scene for a night-ride...

Placemark for the car under water set to best-view (basic) imagery date. For the very best imagery of the car you have to turn TimeSlider OFF and switch 3D Buildings layer ON!
car under water.kmz (864 B)




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Condolences to relatives - William Moldt - R.I.P.!

Amazing, not to mention sad. I did a search, remembering one involving an old Chevy somewhere in the south (I think), but I found out that it happens way more often than I imagined. Just a few from recent years...


Oklahoma 2013

Florida 2015 

Michigan 2015 

N. Carolina early 2019


The one missing longest in the list above was 40 years. I never did find the 1952 Chevy.