US fisherman spots car in river; leads to break in missing persons cold case from 1967
Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck said his office had received tips over the years but none had led to answers.
Benn, a businessman from Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, disappeared at the age of 59, shortly after being seen dining at King’s Supper Club north of Sartell. (Photo: X/@thelastshow) A fisherman in Minnesota may have helped solve a nearly six-decade-old missing persons case after spotting a submerged car in the Mississippi River, CNN reported.
Brody Loch told CNN affiliate WCCO that he detected the vehicle with his sonar device last weekend while fishing. “It was 100 per cent luck, if my buddy wouldn’t have caught that walleye, we would have kept on floating down (the river) and never would have found it,” he said.
Three days later, divers located the car in Sartell, Minnesota, and discovered human remains inside, according to Stearns County Sheriff Steve Soyka.
Investigators identified the vehicle as a 1963 metallic blue Buick Electra belonging to Roy George Benn, who was last seen in September 1967. The sheriff’s office confirmed that the vehicle’s identification number matched Benn’s car.
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