Google helps to search uncovered body of missing man

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Google helps to search uncovered body of missing man

A man who disappeared since 22 years ago, Google Earth has discovered and spotted his car submerged in a lake.


The person named William Moldt in Florida, US went missing back on November 7, 1997. He went to a club that night when he was 40 years old. Since then he never return again.


The police had filed that missing person report and for over two decades, no one had any clue him.


After 22 years, a former resident of the Grand Isle neighbourhood decided to look at satellite images of the area. He zoomed into a lake of the area near the 3700 block of Moon Bay Circle and noticed a white car that submerged into the lake at the rear of a row of properties.

Missing Car

It was a property surveyor who spotted the car submerged in the pond.


The resident then contacted one of the local homeowners, who used his personal drone to confirm that the vehicle was still there.


Local police then pulled the car from the water and found skeletal remains inside. The vehicle was towed to the Medical Examiner's Office for processing. And they were quickly identified as belonging to Mr Moldt.


Reports say, amazingly a vehicle had been plainly visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no one had noticed it until 2019, when a property surveyor saw the car while looking at Google Earth.


The force said that, during the initial investigation into his disappearance, there was "no evidence of that occurring" until recently, when a shift in the water made the car visible. The Grand Isles housing development had been under construction at the time.


The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office suspects that Moldt may have lost control of the car somehow, but they suggested that the exact cause of the crash is unknown, and will likely remain that way.


Detectives and Crime Scene Investigators responded to the scene and took over the case.





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