It was like any other day for Minnesota fisherman, Brody Loch, and his friend, James Ham, who were fishing on the Mississippi River in Sartell when they stumbled upon an unusual sight. Loch, who had just bought a LiveScope sonar fish locator four days prior, spotted what they assumed was a rock at first. Upon a closer look, both men concluded the image looked like the body style of an old Cadillac.
After further confirmation upon returning to the location the next day with his family, Loch called authorities. Three days later, divers found the vehicle and located human remains in the car. Upon further investigation after the car was towed from the river, authorities discovered the car was a 1963 Buick sedan that belonged to a 59-year-old Minnesota native, Roy George Benn, who went missing in 1967.
“It was 100% 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,” said Loch, reported CNN.
According to authorities, Benn was reported to be carrying lots of cash on the day he disappeared after dining at King’s Supper Club north of Sartell, Minnesota. Despite the search by investigators for months and exhausting every lead possible, the victim was declared legally dead in 1975.
Investigation into the case is still ongoing.
"Tons of credit for a fisherman to actually see that and then have the forethought to call the sheriff's office and make that report. Artifacts, clothing items, different things like that will absolutely help in piecing this whole thing together. I think perspective needs to be offered sometimes, of what a large amount of cash looked like in 1960 versus now, which very well could have been, from reading some of those original reports, several hundreds of dollars," said Sartell Police Chief Brandon Silgjord, according to CBS News.
Benn was the owner of the St. Cloud Appliance Repair Service at the time of his disappearance.
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