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Sat Nov 14 18:07:52 EST 2015
Cook Funeral Home, Byron Center, Michigan: There's a guy (Brian Houseman) putting up Xmas decorations, and he's got some kind of lift to put a star on top of a tall pine tree. He looks over to a pond and thinks he sees a submerged car. He calls the police. They conclude there is a car in the pond, but the ground around the pond has not been disturbed recently (no tire tracks), so the car's been in there more than a day - this is not a rescue situation.
They get divers out the next morning and get the license-plate info. The car links to a missing-person report from 2006. They get the Chevy Corsica out of the pond, break the windows, find skeletal remains, and call in the coroner. They also find a wallet that matches the same unsolved case. No positive ID yet because there's no teeth for matching against dental records, and DNA will take a while. But it's likely this is (then) 67-year-old Davie Niles, missing from nearby Wyoming, MI.
Niles was last seen at Jake's Bar in Dorr on Oct. 11, 2006. [7 miles (11.25km) south of Byron Center; another news report shows a photo of the bar, a building only 0.7 mile (1.1km) from the pond.]
The bulletin lists Niles as an advanced cancer patient "who may be depressed due to his illness."
"I don't know that we're ever going to be able to determine if it's suicide or accidental." said Kent County Sheriff's Lt. Ron Gates.
His family held a funeral for him in 2013.Body found in submerged car may be man missing almost 10 years
License plate on car pulled from pond after nearly 10 years matches missing person bulletin
Body found in Byron pond positively identified
Body found in pond after 9 years: 'Closure of a long search'
The Daily Mail (UK) gets it wrong:Mystery of man missing for a decade is solved by Google Maps: Aerial image captures outline of submerged car that had the body of an elderly man trapped inside
The car is visible in Google's aerial view, but that wasn't how anybody noticed it.
I think November 9th is too early to be putting up Xmas decorations.
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Cook Funeral Home, Byron Center, Michigan: There's a guy (Brian Houseman) putting up Xmas decorations, and he's got some kind of lift to put a star on top of a tall pine tree. He looks over to a pond and thinks he sees a submerged car. He calls the police. They conclude there is a car in the pond, but the ground around the pond has not been disturbed recently (no tire tracks), so the car's been in there more than a day - this is not a rescue situation.
They get divers out the next morning and get the license-plate info. The car links to a missing-person report from 2006. They get the Chevy Corsica out of the pond, break the windows, find skeletal remains, and call in the coroner. They also find a wallet that matches the same unsolved case. No positive ID yet because there's no teeth for matching against dental records, and DNA will take a while. But it's likely this is (then) 67-year-old Davie Niles, missing from nearby Wyoming, MI.
Niles was last seen at Jake's Bar in Dorr on Oct. 11, 2006. [7 miles (11.25km) south of Byron Center; another news report shows a photo of the bar, a building only 0.7 mile (1.1km) from the pond.]
The bulletin lists Niles as an advanced cancer patient "who may be depressed due to his illness."
"I don't know that we're ever going to be able to determine if it's suicide or accidental." said Kent County Sheriff's Lt. Ron Gates.
His family held a funeral for him in 2013.Body found in submerged car may be man missing almost 10 years
License plate on car pulled from pond after nearly 10 years matches missing person bulletin
Body found in Byron pond positively identified
Body found in pond after 9 years: 'Closure of a long search'
The Daily Mail (UK) gets it wrong:Mystery of man missing for a decade is solved by Google Maps: Aerial image captures outline of submerged car that had the body of an elderly man trapped inside
The car is visible in Google's aerial view, but that wasn't how anybody noticed it.
I think November 9th is too early to be putting up Xmas decorations.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/779407.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]