The fisherman thought he saw a car in the Mississippi River. He may have just helped to solve a cold case since 1967

Two Minnesota fishermen found unexpected detection under the Mississippi River this week where Sonar technology led to the authorities mentioned by decade.

Brody Loch, one of the fishermen, told Cnn Affitiate Wcco and saw the car in the river uses his device last weekend. Three days on Wednesday, various found vehicle and found people living in, Stearns County Sheriff Steve Soyka told CNN.

“It was 100% lucky, if my friend would not hold that walley, we would continue to float (the river) and would not find it,” Loch said Wcco told Wcco.

Soyka said he was afraid of the car, a year and 1960s-era buick, you might leave, when done in the face, given how long the car was installed. But when the investigators pulled the buicks on the river, “amazingly, it came into solid,” he said.

After working with a car-pulling company to remove the car in the water, the investigators had spy a vehicle ID number from Roy Benn, missing in September 1967, according to news of issues in Sheriff.

The Native of Sauk Rapids, Eminnesota, was finally seen driving the 1963 blue electrical, according to a missing person from the Minnesota Bureau of Crimate.

“Based on the cargo of people, materials, and verification of the vehicle number, Sheriff’s Sheriff’s offices bear on whether Mr Benn,” said Stearns County Sheriff.

Benn reported that “he carried a large amount of money when he lasted,” According to the bureau.

Search Benn continued in months after his disappearance, and decades for more than fifty days after the last.

St. Cloud Daily Times are reviewed with CNN Shed Light on the man who disappeared nearly that day in the King Repper Club in northern Satell, Minnesota.

In Bonn, 59 during his disappearance, he was a businessman and the owner of the West Appliance Rood Service Pre-previous wife who had died last year, the St. Cloud Clound Times said.

His brother, Walter Benn, worked with legal authorities in accordance with Roy disappearance, as the investigators chase the lead who had never resolved the case.

Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck for investigating Roy Benn’s Asrew Persons since disappearing the CNN investigators in his office – but no one is “obligatory.”

Walter Benn prepared a personal property for auction to be sold in 1968, according to the Tribunal Lasts of St. Cloud Daily Daily.

Roy Benn is said to be officially dead in 1975, eight years after the loss, according to the finalities of the Laundi Cloud Daily Times.

Beton County Sheriff’s office has led to investigations that case, and the remains found in the buick is sent to the administrative inspector’s office for inspection.

Heck warned that “some common ways in our partners, the medical examiner, which will use to identify that they will not necessarily work” because of the length of the body.

“We believe there is that there is that this will be Roy Benn’s car, and may have been possible.” Heck said.

Hell added Roy Benn near Kin notified for the acquisition. The Department once reached them for family DNA.

“We are only happy that finally we may eventually get a break that needed closer to family,” said Heck.

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