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A man examining aerial views of his former Florida neighborhood on Google Earth has allowed officials to discover the skeleton of a man who has been missing for more than 20 years.
The remains of William Moldt, who was reported missing on November 8, 1997, were found in a pond in Palm Beach County in a "heavily calcified" vehicle that the former resident, which officials have not identified, was first sighted with the help of Google Earth, the sheriff's office said Thursday in a statement.
He contacted the current resident of the property, who used a drone to confirm the discovery before notifying the sheriff's office.
MPs discovered the car in the detention pond in Wellington late last month, reported WPTV, an affiliate of NBC, of West Palm Beach. The sheriff's office said the human remains had been identified as those of Moldt on Tuesday.
In 1997, Moldt, then 40, called his girlfriend from a bar around 9:30 pm. the night before he disappeared, he had announced his return home. He left the disco around 11 pm and did not appear drunk, WPTV reported, quoting the website of the National System of Missing and Unidentified Persons.
Wellington is a city of about 56,500 inhabitants west of West Palm Beach.
Barry Fay, 50, who left Sunrise to settle in Wellington 14 months ago, told The South Florida Sun Sentinel that the ex-husband of a neighbor who lived in the neighborhood, had found Saturn submerged while watching Google Earth. The website uses satellite images to show images from around the world.
"I called the former owner of my house to ask her if she knew about it," Fay told Sun Sentinel. "She was shocked."
The community where the body was found, Grand Isles, was under construction when Moldt was missing, WPTV reported. The way the car went into the pond was not clear.
A neighbor, Lori Martin, told the station that the discovery in the pond "was very shocking to all of us," but that she was glad that the body was found so that it could to be found and rest in peace.
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