Google Maps Helped Find The Body Of A Man Who Went Missing Since 1997

Harin - Sep 14, 2019

Thanks to Google Maps, the body of a man found in Florida have been revealed to be those of William Moldt, who had been missing for more than 20 years.

On August 28, 2019, a male body was found in a lake in Palm Beach town, Florida, the United States. The body is identified as William Moldt who went missing 22 years ago. The police had been searching for Moldt for years with no result. It was not until a man called to inform that he had discovered a body in the lake behind his house was the case solved.

Moldt’s body was discovered inside his own car in a lake in Wellington. Palm Beach said that William disappeared mysteriously on November 8, 1997. For the past 22 years, no one has had any idea where the man had gone. A manager of housing development accidentally saw the image of the car on Google Earth. He then told his neighbor Barry Fay about this but Barry didn’t believe the story and asked a friend of him who owns a drone to check the area. Via the drone, they could confirm that the car was there and reported to the police.

Google-Earth — The area where Moldt's car was located.

According to the police, Moldt died when he was only 40 years old. He was someone who rarely consumed alcohol. But the night of his death, he visited the local club and left at 11 pm.

Some sources said that Mold wasn’t drunk that night. Another mystery about the case was that, at that time, houses were being built around the lake. So it remains mysterious how Moldt and his car had gotten into the lake.