Investigators have been confused by the disappearance of 3 men who left a North Carolina pub shortly before the last call in December 1982 for more than forty years, yet there is little hope that the case will be resolved after human remains were recently found in a vehicle at the bottom of a creek.
On February 10, search teams were able to extract the vehicle from Jack’s Creek near Washington, North Carolina. According to Jonathan Russell, the city manager of Washington, a YouTuber recently used a surfing board with sonar connected to find out if there was an automobile in the water.
The vehicle that was recovered from the river was a 1975 Chevrolet Camaro, the same brand and make that Michael Norman, 32, David McMicken, 24, and William Clifton, 30, were driving when they vanished from a Chocowinity, North Carolina, bar in 1982, according to WNCT.
“Emergency Services is mindful of reports circulating on social media lately about searches for and identification of a submerged vehicle in Washington. The information posted in those posts is being actively reviewed and investigated by local law authorities. As more details become available, they will be made public, Beaufort County Communications Director Brandon Tester said WNCT.
The YouTuber who discovered the card first, Jason Souhrada, was reportedly in contact with the families of the 3 lost men. This interaction inspired him to create a sonar system that he might use in locations that are inaccessible to boats, according to WITN.
Souhrada said to the source that he captured the car upside down in approximately eleven feet of water in his photos. The car looked to be broken and to have remained there for some time from the footage.
On February 9, a Facebook post regarding the finding was made by the YouTube channel Chaos Divers, which looks into cold cases.
“We were in connection with the family on our initial trip down and talked to them again today,” according to the YouTubers.