DORAL, Fla. – Thirty-two vehicles were found at the bottom of a lake in Doral over the weekend by divers searching for cars connected to missing persons cold cases.
The vehicles were discovered by divers with United Search Corps, a nonprofit that seeks action and advocacy for the victims of missing persons cases and their families.
According to CNN’s interview with Doug Bishop, the nonprofit’s founder, the search area in Doral was just one of several hundred on the nonprofit’s to-do list, with more than 40 cold cases to look into across Miami-Dade and Broward counties alone.
“It just so happened to have 32 cars,” Bishop said, clarifying his team recovered no human remains from the lake and was not able to connect any of the vehicles to cases that United Search Corps was looking into.
Video of the vehicles’ recovery went up on social media via the Miami-Dade Police Department, which responded to the lake along with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and Doral police.
Police are still investigating the possibility that any of the cars were linked to crimes, Bishop said.
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quakerorts on August 17th, 2023 at 18:42 UTC »
Dear insurance company, My car was stolen and never recovered.
ByronScottJones on August 17th, 2023 at 17:39 UTC »
So in South Florida, if you go diving in any man made lake, you will find submerged cars. Normally divers will copy down the VIN, and remove the license plate, and leave something so other divers know it has been reported. Then police are notified with the information and the location. In all the cars I came across, I never saw human remains. The cars were usually stripped of valuable parts, suggesting theft.
theletterlthreetimes on August 17th, 2023 at 16:36 UTC »
How do you find 32 cars hidden for what logic would say is illicit purposes and none of them are connected to crimes?