The grainy video on the sonar screen showed the murky depths of a South Florida pond.
Two men aboard a small boat dutifully watched the screen for clues as the camera scanned. Slowly, the outline of what they believed to be a car wheel appeared. They became more confident they were seeing a wrecked vehicle after they threw a buoy down to the depths and the rope snagged.
The duo had traversed to the body of water that day in January of 2023 in Davie, Florida hoping to find the whereabouts of an air conditioner repairman missing since 1986.
They instead made another miraculous discovery.
Soon after diving roughly 20 feet below to investigate, they realized the car was a silver Saturn, the same type of vehicle police said belonged to Karen Moore before she went missing in Davie in 2001. Moore, a nurse, was supposed to pick up her 8-year-old daughter from Girl Scout camp on June 27 but didn’t show up. It was soon discovered she also didn’t report to work.
The whereabouts of Moore and her Saturn remained unknown – until the day of the dive. Soon later, Moore’s daughter, Christina Baber, got the call she’d been hoping would come for nearly 23 years. From her work in Indianapolis, police confirmed the car and human remains inside belonged to her mom.