First, a blue Honda Civic was pulled from a retention pond near the highway in Miramar. A week later, in Plantation, a 1960s Chevy Impala was found with a children’s toy inside . The next day, a deteriorated 1999 Buick LeSabre was hauled from the depths of a nearby Plantation lake.
All of them had human remains inside.
Sunshine State Sonar, a team of volunteer divers known for solving missing persons cases across Florida, visited Broward County over the last few weeks to search for the remains of a missing mother and child, inadvertently locating two other cars owned by people missing from the area for years.
On Saturday, the team says they successfully found what they were looking for: the remains of Doris Wurst and her 3-year-old daughter, Caren, reported missing from Plantation in November 1974. But in the process, they uncovered cars linked to the missing persons cases of Bernie Novick, an 83-year-old World War II veteran, and Eduardo Graterol, 31, who never came home from a party at a friend’s house.