# Did Elk City, OK have a serial killer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-elk-city-ok-have-a-serial-killer/669153 "2013-09-18T16:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-elk-city-ok-have-a-serial-killer/669153/1 "2013-09-18T16:42:36Z")
> **[HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News](https://www.huffpost.com/?err_code=404&err_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2013%2F09%2F17%2Ffoss-lake-discovery_n_3945028.html)** > > Read the latest headlines, news stories, and opinion from Politics, Entertainment, Life, Perspectives, and more. > **[Sixth body discovered in decades-old cars recovered from Oklahoma lake ](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sixth-body-found-cars-recovered-oklahoma-lake-article-1.1459571?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2Bnydnrss%2Fsports%2Fbasketball%2Fnets%2B%28Sports%2FBasketball%2FNets%29)** > > Investigators have found a sixth body in one of two rusted-out cars pulled from an Oklahoma lake. The discovery may solve the dual mysteries of a set of teens who disappeared in 1970 and a trio of grown men who went missing in the late 1950s or ... Sometime in the last few days, law enforcement officers conducting a training exercise in Foss Lake near Elk City, OK, discovered two sunken cars. After they pulled them out they found the remains of 3 bodies in each car. The funny thing is that the cars match the descriptions of vehicles of persons that went missing around 20 years apart. One car and its owner and friends went missing in the 1950’s, the other went missing in the early 1970’s. The vehicles were side by side in the lake. Seems very coincidental. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-elk-city-ok-have-a-serial-killer/669153/2 "2013-09-18T16:57:52Z")
If I read my Google Maps correctly, Foss Lake is the biggest body of water for a long way around. Maybe it’s the dumping point of choice for a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-elk-city-ok-have-a-serial-killer/669153/3 "2013-09-18T17:22:20Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > The vehicles were side by side in the lake. Seems very coincidental. Or just a random occurrence where two vehicle left the road (weather or driver-related) at approximately the same location, ending up next to each other underwater. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-elk-city-ok-have-a-serial-killer/669153/4 "2013-09-18T17:29:22Z")
[Already being discussed in MPSIMS.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=702583) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-elk-city-ok-have-a-serial-killer/669153/5 "2013-09-18T18:47:13Z")
I’ll save any speculation until there’s been an autopsy. Unless you want to speculate on what the results would be if this were an episode of Bones.