Foss lake oklahoma

Foss lake oklahoma

Foss lake oklahoma, WAS it a hillbilly murder or simply a slippery boat ramp? Two rusted cars containing six bodies have been uncovered in an Oklahoma lake more than 40 years after those inside were reported missing.

Police were testing new sonar search equipment when they stumbled across the two cars in the remote lake — potentially solving a 40-year-old mystery involving three schoolchildren.

The mud-covered cars - a blue 1969 Chevrolet Camaro and an early 1950s Chevy - containing a total of six skeletons, were pulled from Lake Foss early yesterday Australian time.

Trooper George Hoyle with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol told the Elk City Daily News that they had been asked to test their new sonar equipment near an old boat ramp which is due to undergo an extensive upgrade.

First they found the 1950s Chevrolet. Then they discovered the 1969 Camero.
The blue Camero is believed to be associated with the cold-case disappearance of three students from Sayre High School in November 1970.

Police say the bodies inside the Camaro may belong to Jimmy Allen Williams 16, Thomas Michael Rios, 18, and Leah Gail Johnson, 18. All went missing after driving off in Jimmy’s new car in November 1970.

The teens had told their parents they were going to a football game in Elk City. However, speculation at the time had suggested they may have really been intending to go hunting near Foss Lake.

The three bodies inside the Chevrolet are thought to be a 69-year-old man and his two friends who went missing in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

The men were last seen in the nearby town of Canute where they told locals they were planning to visit Foss Lake.However, Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said because the two cars had been there for so long it was proving hard to confirm names.

One body has been identified from personal effects. The name has not yet been released by the family.
The other bodies have been handed over to the local medical examiner's office who will attempt to determine identities through matching DNA with surviving family members.

Police have so far refused to speculate about the cause of death. Local media and missing person networks have been wrestling with the cause of the teens' disappearance for decades - was it murder or were they runaways?

"But we're a long way from saying it's solved yet, because we just don't have that much confirmed," Sheriff Peoples said.

Kim Carmichael, whose father worked the case of the missing teenagers told Oklahoma's Newsnine.com how devastated everyone was at the time.

Dad said there was nothing ... There were no leads, no nothing. He said it was just like they vanished into thin air," she said.

"I can't imagine what [Williams's] family was going through if I could see what my dad was going through."
The two cars were found side-by side in 12ft of water. The remains were discovered when the vehicles were hauled to the surface.

Debbie McManaman thinks her grandfather - John Alva Porter - was in the 1950s-era Chevy that was pulled out of the murky waters.

"It's been very traumatic,'' McManaman told KFOR news.
"I can remember my dad having dreams at night and getting in the car as soon as he got off work from his day job, and he'd take my mom and they'd look and look for any trace.''