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.
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?
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.
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?
Ok, maybe we need a thread title change – to “8 bodies found in 3 cars in a lake and a creek.”
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.
Bodies identified. Wasn’t shenanigans like I believed:
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.
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.
I was just thinking about this story/thread the other day.
If they had dolphins, they would have found it in no time.
Or worse yet, in front of your car going way under the speed limit.