Officials: Missing man’s remains found inside submerged vehicle in Ridley Township

RIDLEY TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) — A personal diving firm discovered a automobile with human stays inside on the backside of the Darby Creek Saturday, probably tied to a person who went lacking almost 20 years in the past in Delaware County.

Ridley Township police say the divers, who’re volunteers with Adventures With Objective, had been contacted by the lacking particular person’s household, who hoped to assist present closure as to what occurred to their cherished one in 2003 when he was final seen.

“It is the solutions they want, needed to maneuver ahead,” stated Doug Bishop with Adventures with Objective.

When the person went lacking on December 4, 2003, he went to select up two kids from the babysitter and by no means confirmed up on the babysitter’s home,” stated Captain James Dougherty of the Ridley Township Police Division.

Investigators had tied the lacking man’s automobile, a inexperienced Ford Explorer, to his case.

Adventures With Objective, a volunteer diving crew from Oregon, says it makes a speciality of chilly circumstances the place autos are concerned.

It makes use of sonar expertise to trace them underwater.

“We met with the household. We put collectively the clues that they have been capable of supply us. We additionally utilized that with our search techniques regarding investigations and circumstances we solved prior to now,” stated Bishop. “That’s what led us right here to go looking this physique of water.”

The divers referred to as police upon discovering the automobile with human stays inside. First responders helped extract among the stays because the household watched from the docks.

“I do imagine it brings closure to them. As a result of that is one thing that we have been investigating for a very long time, and it wasn’t simply the preliminary lacking particular person, it was following a whole lot of leads through the years,” stated Dougherty.

Police say the stays are with the Delaware County coroner, who will positively determine the person when doable.

The automobile continues to be within the creek. Police say the docks have been changed within the almost 20 years for the reason that man went lacking, and divers say one of many dock’s piling punctured the hood of the automobile.