William Earl Moldt was last realise alive on November 7 , 1997 . The 40 - yr - former mortgage broker , a uncommon drinker , went to a local nightclub in Lantana , Florida , the Washington Post report .
allot to the lose soul report following a constabulary investigating , he mostly kept to himself in the social club , before leaving around 11 pm . As he allow , he did not seem drunk . Before getting in his car , he had prognosticate his girlfriend to tell her he ’d be home curtly . However , he did not show up that evening or any evening since , and it was n’t long before his case went cold .
He remained missing for the next two decades , with no leads to investigate or explanation for what may have happened to him . His mob finally have closure now , after a local attribute surveyor from the Florida town , browse Google Maps satellite images of his neighborhood , spotted a car partially submerged in a pond behind a nearby house .
After seeing the railway car , they run short to the owner of the belongings , Barry Fay , to inform them of the find . sprite , having used a drone to take flight over the pool and reassert the sighting , describe it to the Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office on August 28 , theSun Sentinal reports . The car was lifted out of the pond and confirmed to be Moldt ’s 1994 Saturn SL . His cadaver were discovered in spite of appearance .
“ The vehicle ’s exterior was heavily calcify and was obviously in the water for a important amount of time , ” the Sheriff ’s Officetold the Sun Sentinel .
The property had been in ontogeny at the time of Moldt ’s last , and the car go undiscovered throughout the rest of construction . According tothe Charley Project – which documents case involve wanting soul – the automobile had been plain seeable on Google Earth since 2007 , but nobody had noticed it until now .
" You ca n’t determine what happened that many age ago , what transpired , " police spokeswoman Therese Barberatold the BBC . " All we know is that he went missing off the face of the Earth , and now he ’s been discover . "
