Identified! Canada - Skaha Lake, BC, bones in submerged car, Apr'10 - Betty Thomas.

[RubyRed]

Amid the debris let loose on the boat launch was a skull. Moments later divers saw a bone, attached to a torn pant leg, sticking out the car window, said Asschoff.

http://www.vancouversun.com/Skull+bone+found+raised+from+bottom+lake/2955661/story.html

 

[Cubby]

Here is a rear-view of the 1963 New Yorker

Thank you Carl! Does it look to you like the rear lamps on the car pulled from the lake are not round? It is hard for me to tell, but imo, they look more like the 'triangle' side on the 64 versus the round rear lamps on a 63.

Or am I just thinking I see that?

thanks!

 

[RubyRed]

Here is a rear-view of the 1963 New Yorker

police have compared the tail lights and rear features to cars of the era, and they believe it’s a 1964 Chrysler 300.

http://www.calgarysun.com/news/columnists/michael_platt/2010/04/27/13740921.html

 

[Cubby]

Is there any local or Canadian WS'rs in contact with LE regarding this doe?

I wonder if they can wipe off or clean up the rear car lamp well enough to read the date imprinted on the plastic covering. On the older cars, they usually list the make and year. (It was molded into the plastic covering).

That might be a way to confirm the year and make if LE has not already done so.

 

[Cubby]

Here is one picture of a 1964 Chrysler 300 from Americandreamcars.com

I'm trying to find some side and rear pics of the same car.

 

[Cubby]

Rear and side pics of a 1964 Chrysler 300 from Jalopnik.com

http://jalopnik.com/362664/1964-chrysler-300

pics from above link.

 

[Cymro]

Lots more here of a 1964: http://jalopnik.com/362664/1964-chrysler-300

Not pretty, is it?

It won't let me delete this - Cubby and I posted simultaneously. The Jalopnik car is a 1964 by the way.

 

[Cubby]

No need to delete. those are great pics too Cymro. Better choices than what I posted imo.

 

[tatertot]

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/...ry_solved_100528/20100428?hub=BritishColumbia

ID'd!

The car is a '64 Chrysler 300 and the woman inside went missing in November 1972. She has not been publicly ID'd yet but her family has been notified. She was from B.C.

 

[Patience]

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Body+found+submerged+woman+missing+since/2964658/story.html

Police and the B.C. Coroner's Service have identified the remains found in a mid-1960s Chrysler New Yorker that was pulled Sunday from the bottom of the lake as that of a 20-year-old woman who went missing in November 1972

 

[Donjeta]

I'm glad she was identified so quickly. They got lucky:

Police found ID in the car. "We were very fortunate [Tuesday] when we were taking the vehicle apart that we were able to locate personal identification and papers that were still intact, even after being 38 years submerged in the water," Penticton RCMP spokesman Sgt. Rick Dellebuur said Wednesday.

It is said that no foul play is suspected, and the family does not want her name published.

I still wonder what happened to the car's plates.

 

[luckyducky]

The victim has been identified but name not released yet. Her car ended up in beautiful Skaha lake in November 1972 and just found. Her poor family not knowing what happened to her until now. I wonder how many of the missing do end up with the same fate and are just not found yet. Heartbreaking. http://www.pentictonherald.ca/top_story.php?id=260601&type=Local

 

[Mom who cares]

Has anybody sleuthed this to find out who this girl is? I tried with no success.

 

[Cubby]

Has anybody sleuthed this to find out who this girl is? I tried with no success.

The article indicates her name was not released per request of the family.
Based on her family's wishes we are not going to sleuth her identity.


The good news is LE was able to identify this woman quickly and now her family has answers to what happened to her and may lay her to rest properly.

Prayers for the family of this woman. I'm so glad she has her name back.

 

[Patience]

The skeletal remains found in a car pulled from the bottom of a B.C. lake last week are those of a young mother who disappeared nearly four decades ago.
Betty Thomas, 20, disappeared in November 1972 without a trace, mystifying her family and leaving behind a husband and an 18-month-old son.

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=24095573

 

[Patience]

http://www.chbcnews.ca/Missing+woman+left+behind+toddler/2972330/story.html

An Okanagan paper has revealed the name of the woman whose remains were discovered in a sunken vehicle in Skaha Lake.

Betty Thomas, a 19-year-old woman from the small Similkameen town of Keremeos, disappeared weeks before her 20th birthday.

Family members told the Penticton Herald that Thomas went missing in November 1971, leaving her husband and toddler son wondering where she had gone.

 

[Cubby]

So sad. At least her husband and son know she didn't leave them willingly.

Rip Betty.

 

[luckyducky]

So sad ........ Betty Thomas was a young mom living in Keremeos when she suddenly went
missing more than 38 years ago. http://www.pentictonherald.ca/stories_local.php?id=260905

 

[Hazel]

:rose: Rest in Peace Betty :rose:

Betty Thomas was a young mom living in Keremeos when she suddenly went missing more than 38 years ago. For members of her family,
including her toddler son who was then raised by his grandparents in Hedley, her disappearance remained a mystery. Until now.
Sunday, May 2, 2010​

http://www.globaltvbc.com/story.html?id=2977680

 

[Hazel]

Remains in B.C. mystery identified
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-co...8/bc-skaha-body-identified.html#ixzz0nlc4vjH7


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Bones from B.C. lake solve 38-year-old mystery
ID of young mother who vanished in 1972 found in car pulled from Skaha Lake
Last Updated: Friday, April 30, 2010



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-co...lake-body-car-betty-thomas.html#ixzz0nlbY87X3