Human remains and a car found in a North Carolina creek are linked to a decades-old cold case, police said.
In 1982, three men went missing after leaving a bar in Chocowinity, North Carolina, according to CBS News affiliate WNCT . William Clifton, 30, David McMicken, 24, and Michael Norman, 32, were all in a 1975 Chevrolet Camaro, police told WCNT, but were never seen again.
The car found in Washington, North Carolina is the same make and model, police told WCNT, but the car was “in such bad shape it was hard to even identify that it was a vehicle at all,” from being submerged in a body of water known as Jack’s Creek, according to Sidney Dive Team Captain John Scott Rose Jr. Chocowinty and Washington are neighbors.
Police began searching the waterway after Jason Sourada, a man from Myrtle Beach, learned about the cold case and began privately searching the area. Sourada told WCNT that he identified the creek as being along the route the men could have been driving, so he put a “remote-controlled solar boat” in the body of water to look for anything amiss.