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Fisherman Who Found Car Tied to 1960s Cold Case Calls Discovery "100% Luck"
A fisherman’s sonar discovery led to recovering Roy Benn’s car and remains from the river, solving a 1967 disappearance case, police said.
- Authorities on Tuesday recovered a sunken car from the Mississippi River in Sartell tied to a 1967 missing person's case, believed to contain human remains.
- Fisherman Brody Loch used a Garmin Livescope sonar over the weekend and reported an anomaly to law enforcement on Sunday, Aug. 10.
- Investigators determined the 1963 metallic blue Buick Electra matches Roy George Benn's VIN and contains human remains believed to be his.
- Immediate steps involve authorities working with a local towing company and investigators to extract the vehicle, and the remains will be sent to the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office for identification.
- Looking back at original case files, authorities say Roy George Benn's 1967 disappearance involved quarries and the Mississippi River, with the car submerged for nearly 60 years.
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Fisherman who found car tied to 1960s cold case calls discovery "100% luck" | News Channel 3-12
By Ashley Grams, WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story Minnesota (WCCO) — In Sartell, Minnesota, an investigation is underway with ties to a decades-old cold case. Investigators spent hours removing a car that was 20 feet under the Mississippi River on Tuesday, all thanks to a tip. “When he caught the fish, I turned the transducer around and boom, there it was just sitting on the bottom,” said Brody Loch, a fisherman from Watkins, …
Fisherman who found car tied to 1960s cold case calls discovery "100% luck"
WCCO, BRODY LOCH, THE ST. CLOUD DAILY TIMES ARCHIVE, CNN By Ashley Grams, WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story Minnesota (WCCO) — In Sartell, Minnesota, an investigation is underway with ties to a decades-old cold case. Investigators spent hours removing a car that was 20 feet under the Mississippi River on Tuesday, all thanks to a tip. “When he caught the fish, I turned the transducer around and boom, there it was just sitting on…
Car submerged in Mississippi River might be linked to 1967 disappearance
Authorities have located a car potentially connected to a 1967 missing person’s case at the bottom of the Mississippi River in Sartell, Minn. A dive team did an exploratory dive near County Road 1 in Sartell around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office. Divers found a car that appeared to be from the 1960s and was half-full of sediment. On Sept. 25, 1967, Roy George Benn was last seen driving his 1963 Buick Elect…
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Human remains found in car at bottom of Mississippi may be man missing since 1967
SARTELL — Human remains in a 1963 Buick found in the Mississippi River are believed to be tied to a nearly 60-year-old missing persons case. The Stearns-Benton County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team found the metallic blue 1963 Buick Electra on Wednesday, Aug. 13, near Riverside Avenue in Sartell, according to the Sartell Police Department. Though the vehicle is intact, it is “severely deteriorated and filled with river sediment,” according to a Sart…
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