Seventeen months after 88-year-old Myrtle Polk vanished from her Dallas neighborhood, there’s finally a break in the case – but not the one her family had been praying for.
This week, police recovered Polk’s 2004 black Lexus sedan from Five Mile Creek in southern Dallas. But the car, found overturned and submerged near Wagon Wheels Trail and South Lancaster Road, was empty. Polk was nowhere to be found.
Family members confirmed Tuesday night that the vehicle, long sought since her June 2024 disappearance, had been pulled from the creek by tow truck crews…