An Alabama man’s fishing trip to a popular lake was interrupted after he found human remains inside a vehicle that belonged to someone who had gone missing over a decade previously.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that an unidentified fisherman called police on Friday.
The fisherman said that he had spotted what appeared to be a truck in the murky waters of Weiss Lake in Cherokee County, Alabama.
When local police arrived, they pulled out a truck and were shocked to find human remains inside.
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The vehicle, which was found in the lake, was registered to Oscar Lewis King. (Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department)
Police said that the vehicle matched with a missing person, Oscar Lewis King, who was first reported missing more than a decade ago in north Alabama.
King, who mysteriously disappeared in 2013, was 74 at the time of his disappearance.
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Human remains were recovered from Weiss Lake in Cherokee County on Friday morning. (Google Maps)
At the time of his disappearance, local stations reported that King’s truck was a blue 2001 Dodge Dakota truck.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said that the remains are being sent to a forensics lab for identity confirmation.