# Five bodies found in two cars in a lake. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120 "2013-09-18T02:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/121 "2013-09-26T21:15:17Z")
> [@CLee](#): > > Another lost car mystery in South Dakota, two teenaged girls missing since 71. Studebaker found in a creek bank due to low levels. A lake is one thing; a relatively small creek/river, right next to a bridge… for over 40 years? It just doesn’t seem possible. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/122 "2013-09-27T02:46:36Z")
Does no one think to dredge nearby lakes in the wake of mysterious disappearances? Sure, they didn’t have fancy sonar equipment in Oklahoma back then, but couldn’t they have scared up someone with a scuba tank? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/123 "2013-09-27T04:50:45Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Sure, they didn’t have fancy sonar equipment in Oklahoma back then, but couldn’t they have scared up someone with a scuba tank? The problem in the Oklahoma lake is that the visibility is only a few inches. Not very practical to send a diver down to search. However, dragging bodies of water was common. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/124 "2013-09-27T12:58:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Does no one think to dredge nearby lakes in the wake of mysterious disappearances? Sure, they didn’t have fancy sonar equipment in Oklahoma back then, but couldn’t they have scared up someone with a scuba tank? If you don’t know where they went missing, you don’t know where to look. Should we send scuba divers to every lake in a 600 mile radius if there’s no evidence that they went in to a lake? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/125 "2013-09-27T13:05:12Z")
Ok, maybe we need a thread title change – to “8 bodies found in 3 cars in a lake and a creek.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/126 "2013-09-27T22:12:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The problem in the Oklahoma lake is that the visibility is only a few inches. Not very practical to send a diver down to search. However, dragging bodies of water was common. > [@Musicat](#): > > If you don’t know where they went missing, you don’t know where to look. Should we send scuba divers to every lake in a 600 mile radius if there’s no evidence that they went in to a lake? Armchair Monday-morning quarterbacking here but in the case of the three kids who went missing without a trace, I think that may have been called for. At least at some point before 40 years had elapsed. Especially after the car didn’t even turn up on any registry anywhere. One kid may have run away from home, but all three together? And with zero of their belongings except what they happened to have on them that day? If they had just started with the lake or lakes close to home, they would have turned up a winner pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/127 "2014-10-23T19:49:09Z")
Bodies identified. Wasn’t shenanigans like I believed: [http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/23/us-usa-oklahoma-bodies-idUSKCN0IC2A620141023](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/23/us-usa-oklahoma-bodies-idUSKCN0IC2A620141023) Also, I haven’t read back through but this list 6 bodies while the title is 5. I’ll have to read through this again later. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/128 "2014-10-23T21:30:49Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I haven’t read back through but this list 6 bodies while the title is 5. I’ll have to read through this again later. The count was revised to six after I started the thread. Note: I often copy and paste the actual headlines when I post a link to an article. This was the case in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/129 "2014-10-24T01:54:44Z")
I was just thinking about this story/thread the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/130 "2014-10-24T04:50:55Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Looks like the new sonar equipment paid off. The first training exercise, and this. If they had dolphins, they would have found it in no time. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120/131 "2014-10-24T13:09:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Imagine the horror of crashing into the lake, and the last thing you see as you drown are dead bodies in the car next to yours. Or worse yet, in front of your car going way under the speed limit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-bodies-found-in-two-cars-in-a-lake/669120.md?page=6)