They had lain undiscovered under an Oklahoma
lake for fifty years. And now the discovery of
two rusting vintage cars containing five
bodies has reignited the mystery of how three
teenagers and one man and his friends vanished
more than four decades ago. One of the cases
is believed to be connected to the
disappearance of Jimmy Allen Williams (top
right), Thomas Michael Rios, (top left), and
Leah Gail Johnson, (bottom right), all went
missing after going for a drive in Jimmy's
blue 1969 Camaro on November 20, 1970.
Dive teams were at Foss Lake conducting
training with sonar when they came upon the
vehicles last week. They went back and did a
scheduled dive yesterday and when they pulled
the cars out of the water, they found human
bones. Continue...
The discovery of two rusting vintage cars
containing six bodies has reignited the
mystery of how three teenagers and three other
people vanished more than four decades ago.
Highway patrol officers testing their sonar
equipment Foss Lake near Elk City, Oklahoma on
Friday stumbled upon the rusting 1969 Camaro
and a Chevrolet dating back to the 1950s.
Inside the Camaro were three bodies believed
to be of local teenagers who vanished after
going out for a drive in 1970. Inside the
Chevrolet were three more bodies – thought to
be a 69-year-old man and his two friends who
went missing in the state in the late 1950s or
early 1960s.
Police say the Camaro matches the vehicle
associated with the three missing teenagers
who disappeared on November 10 1970. They say
they have confirmed the identity of at least
one of the victims however details are yet to
be released.
Authorities have not formally identified all
of the remains belong to but the local paper
has made a clear connection between the
discovered Camaro and the teens.
The latest reports by local station KFOR
states that one of the victims in the car
thought to have belonged to the teenager has
been identified but they are waiting to notify
all of the relatives of the victims involved
before releasing any names.
Jimmy Allen Williams 16, Thomas Michael Rios,
18, and Leah Gail Johnson, 18, all went
missing after going for a drive in Jimmy's
blue 1969 Camaro on November 20, 1970.
They are still listed as missing persons and
were thought to have been headed to a football
game in nearby Elk City but also could have
detoured to go hunting at Foss Lake.
Local woman Kim Carmichael was a friend of
the Camaro's owner, 16-year-old Jimmy
Williams.
She told Oklahoma's Newsnine.com: 'I just
remember how devastated everybody was
'We lived in a little town ... Nothing like
that ever happened in Sayre.
At the time of the disappearance, Ms
Carmichael's father was the undersheriff in
nearby Beckham County where the teens were
last seen. He died in 2003 never knowing what
happened.
Ms Carmichael added: 'He said there was
nothing ... There were no leads, no nothing.
He said it was just like they vanished into
thin air.'I can't imagine what [Williams']
family was going through if I could see what
my dad was going through.'
Oklahoma Highway Patrol said they are hoping
the discovery will offer some relief to
families who may have gone decades wondering
where a missing loved one was.
Source: UK Daily Mail
Jimmy Williams poses next to his then brand-
new Camaro as a 16-year-old in 1970

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