Drought Solves More Mysteries

As reported here, the severe drought afflicting southeast Australia has brought quite a bit to the surface. And now this:

Body found in submerged car
January 7, 2007 - 4:50PM

Police believe they have found the remains of a man who disappeared 11 years ago, inside a car submerged in a river in central Victoria.

A police spokeswoman said men fishing on the Loddon River, near Serpentine, 200km north of Melbourne, called police after they spotted the car below the surface of the water last Friday.

The current low water levels had brought the car closer to the surface.

"The vehicle was located six kilometres south of Serpentine, just off the Bridgewater-Serpentine Road," the spokeswoman said.

Police say they believe the skeletal remains may be those of a 38-year-old man who disappeared from Newbridge, near Bendigo, in 1995.

"A coroner's inquest at the time found the matter to be suicide without a body," the spokeswoman said.

Police have spent today investigating the scene and have removed the car from the river.