Minnesota fisherman who discovered the car may have resolved the 1967 cold case | Minnesota

Fisherman who recently went out on the Mississippi River Minnesota According to authorities and local news reports, a flooded car was eventually discovered, apparently helping to resolve a case of missing persons aged nearly 60.

The fisherman of the extraordinary event chain Brody Loch, Brody Loch, Tell Minneapolis news media WCCO called authorities after he discovered a 1960s-era Buick on the weekend of August 9.

By Wednesday, in the Sattle community, local sheriff’s office divers and a tow crew member had recovered the vehicle. Investigators who processed the car found human remains inside, Steve Soyka’s office, Steve Soyka’s Sterns County Sheriff, explain In the statement.

Additionally, Soyka’s agent said that through the vehicle’s Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), investigators were able to determine that the vehicle belonged to Roy Benn, who reportedly disappeared in the nearby Benton County sheriff’s office in September 1967 and has not seen it since.

Officials have sent Benn’s body to the medical examiner’s office for identification. Still, according to the car and its VIN’s items, the Soybean Office said it believes the remains are Benn’s.

Soyka’s office added that it has transferred the case to the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck told CNN that his office had notified Benn’s remaining family, who had previously been asked to provide DNA samples.

Heck said to this: “We are grateful that we may finally get the rest we need to close network.

Announcement of Missing Persons publishing Minnesota’s Public Safety Department said Benn was last seen when he “carried a lot of money” on September 25, 1967. The communiqué also describes the car next to Benn, who also drove a 1963 four-door metallic blue Buick Electra.

Benn has equipment repair services in St Cloud. MinnesotaAccording to the then-local daily report, when he disappeared. The Holy Cloud Daily also reported that Ben’s wife died a year before her disappearance.

Benn’s brother Walter worked with authorities investigating Roy’s disappearance, but as CNN reported, no certainty was achieved at the time.

Walter Benn sold the personal property of his missing brother at an auction in 1968, according to The St. Cloud Daily. Roy Benn was declared legally dead in 1975, about eight years after his last meeting, The Holy Cloud Daily reported.

After finally finding it, Benn’s car “filled with river sediments” that deteriorated severely from underwater for decades, but it was “intact”. statement.

Rocky told WCCO that he hopes Benn’s family finally gets close to a meaningful answer to what happened to him. He attributes it to the day when he and his fishing friends didn’t float on Bain’s car and didn’t find it in the sonar.

“It’s 100% luck,” Rocky said.