By Tim Binnall
A man using Google Earth to check out his old neighborhood in Florida wound up solving a decades-old cold case when he spotted a car that was submerged in a pond. The macabre find was reportedly made late last month by an unnamed former resident of a gated community in the city of Wellington. Concerned by what he was seeing, the man called a friend who still lived in the area and that individual used a drone to confirm the curious discovery.
Authorities were subsequently informed about the submerged car and set about removing the mysterious vehicle from the pond. Much to their astonishment, it turned out that it belonged to a man named William Earl Moldt, who had disappeared back in 1997 while on his way home from a nearby nightclub. Sadly, when the highly calcified car was pulled from the water, investigators found skeletal remains inside the vehicle which were later determined to be those of the missing man.
Oddly enough, it would seem that the car had been hiding in plain sight for quite some time as it was actually first photographed by Google Earth twelve years ago, but no one had noticed it until now. With that in mind, one wonders what other potential cold case clues could be contained in the vast number of images found on the service. At the very least, the discovery should inspire anomaly hunters looking for strange and usual objects here on Earth and out in space. Who knows, maybe that really was a handgun on Mars after all.