The Disappearance of The Houghland Family | UNSOLVED

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[@DarkCuriosities]

For some reason, KZbin keeps automatically disabling comments! I'll try and fix this as soon as I can! Also, apologies for the mistake regarding Ricky's height - for some reason my brain read it backwards!! He was 3ft 5 inches tall, not 5ft 3. Apologies 🦌

[@TheBlueThird]

It's been happening on other true crime channels. Cold Case Detective has had this happen a few times. On Criminally Listed, it just happened today.

[@FailingArtist]

I have a thing called “dyscalcula,” so I understand the numbers thing all too well haha

[@RaccoonNation]

My comments were disabled automatically and my channel is tiny and only has raccoons on it. I think it’s an issue with KZbin 😟❤️

[@Pisces-1978]

@@RaccoonNation Love raccoons, checking you out now 😊 I see it happening on other channels also recently. Hope YT works their crap out ✌❤

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Automatically disabled comments seems to be a KZbin trend. I thought Ricky might be tall for his age. 😉

[@mwheeler138]

Whenever there's a missing car and that's never been found the first thing I think of is water.

[@PatriciaPageMosaicArtsCrafts]

Same here 👍

[@Silenceisgolden25]

Me too. Randy leach comes to mind. Hope adventures with a purpose can find him ❤️

[@angels_up_in_heavenxx8365]

Yes i think the same thing when cars go missing i think of water 💦💧 to it must be hard not knowing what happened to them especially when their are children involved so heartbreaking.

[@madizzle90]

Same with planes.

[@blahsomethingclever]

Just roll all windows down, get out, relax and see which way bubbles float. Follow them. Easy.

[@sammygirl6910]

After the 2017 fires in SoCal, a car was found near my sister's house. The driver had been missing for years, and it took a once a century fire to burn away the ground cover to find them. A car accident sounds pretty reasonable to me.

[@riggs20]

Do you remember the driver’s name or any of the details? It sounds fascinating and I’d like to do a little research. Thanks!

[@BrenMurphy1]

Yes, a bushfire revealed a mother and children in suitcases in NSW Australia. Husband was convicted . Park Family Murders.

[@sammygirl6910]

@@riggs20 No, but it was near Malibu. Apparently this has happened before. The roads around there are crazy.

[@sammygirl6910]

@@BrenMurphy1 Wow. I'm glad someone was arrested for the murders.

[@adotintheshark4848]

was the driver still inside?

[@rainnascott8311]

They should contact Adventures With Purpose! They investigate missing persons cases & search waterways!

[@semsticks]

Thought the same...

[@ameliatoreson1590]

I was going to say the same thing

[@shark50401]

I sent Sam a FB message. Hopefully he'll see it!

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

The American and Sacramento rivers are swift in places. I wonder if Adventures with Purpose would navigate rivers like that?

[@dangerousandy]

Adventures with Purpose was my first thought too

[@alison2649]

There are a LOT of rivers and lakes in the Sacramento area. A LOT. Most likely their car can be found in one of them.

[@kimmie020]

That seems to be the most logical.

[@t.r.c.h.4030]

Maybe that group that does water recovery, adventures with purpose would be interested 🕵️‍♀️

[@TheSaneHatter]

It doesn't even need to be a particularly "waterlogged" area for that to happen: the later seasons of "unsolved Mysteries" featured the case of a young man and his girlfriend who had gone missing one night while driving in the cornfields of the Midwest, and there was not only far less water in the area, but far more grounds for suspicion: the young man's hat was found in an area which had previously been thoroughly searched. Or so they thought: the car, replete with the two bodies, was found in a nearby stream a couple of years after the broadcast, having visibly driven off a bridge.

[@ummhussein1]

My very thought

[@thesweetestteas.4534]

I agree that seems like the most likely scenario. Such a sad story, I hope whatever happened, happened quickly without a lot of suffering ☹️. It's odd that the father wrote a letter to the police though 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@sandrafaith]

Family goes missing, car is missing, they liked to go for drives... sadly, I have to agree that the likeliest outcome is that the car ended up in a body of water. Great, respectful work, as always.

[@LaMorenitaDivina]

With cases like this, where multiple people and a car just vanish into thin air, I always tend to think it’s at the bottom of some body of water or ravine somewhere, as she mentioned, and that it’s just a matter of time before someone stumbles upon it. Hopefully through videos like this, somebody might be able to remember and connect the dots one day. If not for this family, then for someone.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

If this was in the mountains, the Sierras up near Sacramento, I am almost certain this is what happened. A friend of my brother disappeared, only to be found a couple of years later in the mountains. First his car was found where it had tumbled over the edge of a mountain road into a river hundreds of feet below. then he was found many feet above, where he had died of his injuries after apparently trying to crawl up the incline. First snow, then undergrowth covered both car and body. I hope they just started a new life, but I don´t really think this is in the cards.

[@Triliton]

I agree, its most likely a car crash, either into a ravine or into the depths below ocean cliffs.

[@no_peace]

I worry about this a lot because of a couple of roads I go on. I do have location history turned on on my phone though, so at least they'd probably find my car eventually. I might share my location with a couple people when I go on random drives from now on

[@katierasburn9571]

I refuse to believe the mother decided to uproot them all and start anew. For what reason? Why disappear entirely? And why would they leave everything behind? Plates in the sink and everything. No, i think they went out for a trip and for one reason or another, by an accident or foul play, they didnt return home as they intended

[@Utubesanarc]

They most likely got abducted at some rest stop. Whoever it was must have buried the bodies and hid the car. Sad case.

[@blazefairchild465]

Do think a mom would leave dishes in the sink ? Not done in Cali if you don't have AC the house would smell when you came home.

[@pamelastrothkamp4356]

@@Utubesanarc I agree. There were several serial killers operating at that time in that area...

[@KatShoebox]

This case hits close to home as I enjoy taking my boys for drives as well. I hope Norma, Ricky, and Tommy will be found one day soon so their family can have answers. Thank you for sharing!

[@White-Michael935]

That car is submerged somewhere

[@nicbro3831]

I agree

[@michellesartori6695]

My feelings exactly. Perhaps the boys were arguing in the car are children do and Norma lost concentration or swerved to miss something on the road and went over. But with water levels being so low in CA perhaps there'll be an answer in the next few years! No mother leaves her make-up AND a Welfare cheque behind and goes off to start a new life!

[@gailmiller6333]

That’s what I was thinking also

[@btcrazee1]

A case here, 20+ years old of 2 missing teens, was solved just recently when their car was found in a local river.

[@fairladykd6734]

In lieu of, or in addition to commercials, Missing Persons pictures should be shown during ALL sporting events, News broadcasts, and popular sitcoms.

[@loveforeignaccents]

That is a very good idea!!!

[@censored817]

They wont do it to busy advertising products we dont need

[@kerryharding6463]

I also think this is a great idea, they should do it but unfortunately unless they themselves are missing loved ones money is more important (re….advertising)

[@fairladykd6734]

@@kerryharding6463 So sad

[@Pisces-1978]

How can we not know if the car was blue or gold? That's a big difference in color. It being the only thing missing beside the family you'd think they'd make sure whatever info they had would be accurate. DMV had those records. Sad case. God Bless Norma + her boys 🌹

[@davidhusband5022]

bit late for blessings. if god was going to do anything, he would have by saving them, but as always, he fails his believers.

[@Morbegs]

@@davidhusband5022 did this comment make you feel superior.

[@SonfoLiberty44]

Whenever someone goes missing with their car. I believe it's almost always a case of driving into a river/lake accidentally.

[@Steve_V1066]

"My daughter and grandchildren are missing, I should do something...I know, when I send out this years Christmas cards, I will add an extra one to the police to let them know" That is by far the strangest reaction I could imagine, and if I were the police I'd *really* want to have a chat with ol Grandpa and clear that up.

[@amandawilliams2266]

Definitely fishy

[@kadyk4185]

I wonder how old the grandfather was. Maybe he was old fashioned and preferred letters than phone calls and was too old to drive or walk to the police station 🤷‍♀️

[@leightaylor6767]

@@kadyk4185 Or perhaps he thought you had to wait 48 hours or more before you could declare a person missing. That was the policy in a lot of places in 1978. He might have thought writing was more efficient-- the police would have a written statement of all the facts he had and could start looking at soon as the 48 hours was up instead of wasting time coming out to his house to interview him.

[@matildasfarm9450]

Did he have a phone?

[@WyattRyeSway]

@@amandawilliams2266 ....he may not have had a phone. Some old timers didn’t. Everything was done by writing.

[@marissarosaful]

I don't think it is overly strange for her father to send a letter to report the family missing, in 1978 he was probably under the impression he had to wait 72 hours and thought if he posted the letter when it arrived the police could start looking right away, and if the family had just gone out for an outing they would be home. It sounds exactly like what one of my grandparents would of done in that era.

[@mariemarie2888]

It's would have not would of (lol sorry but it is 😋

[@carpediem2445]

I agree Nothing strange in that time.

[@luciuscornelius7177]

It's the lack of immediate concern that's odd to me. Nobody, and I mean not one person in the history of missing people, writes a letter to the police when they discover their daughter and young grandchildren missing. You'd want to have a dialogue with the police because 1- you'd want to make damn sure they understood the importance of getting their act together straight away, and 2- so you can give them whatever information they might need to set their wheels in motion. A letter is a casual notification requiring the police to get back to him whenever they've got a minute. It's an inappropriate response suggesting he wasn't really looking to resolve it any time soon, and you'd have to ask yourself why that might be?

[@marissarosaful]

@@mariemarie2888 care factor is zero.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

@Lucius Cornelius: Maybe the father was keeping a "hands off" approach to his daughter's disappearance. If it looked like she and her boys may have gone on a road trip he may not have been immediately concerned. Also, in the 1970s parents sometimes looked at their children's choices differently: lifestyle/behavior choices that might appear no big deal to us may have been a big deal to them.

[@silojm]

I so glad I was finally recommended your videos again!

[@MattieCooper10000]

I will never forget this haunting case thanks to your great work!

[@itchyandscratching1434]

"Norma may also have been suffering from depression at the time..." Obviously there are many options as to what could have happened to the poor family, and this doesn't have to be the most likely of them. But even before the quote mentioned above, the scenario made me think of a statement/confession my mom once made; After her divorce from my dad, as the single mom of three young children she was, suffering from untreated depression and an ongoing, severe lack of money, she had thoughts of "going into the river with us". ...Whatever it is that happened: I hope all three of them, including their further family members, are in a good, peaceful place now.

[@PeterStawicki]

Thank you. Such a terrible tragedy. Both boys are around my age. It would be nice to find out what happened to them

[@GrubbsandWyrm]

We used to ride around in the summer like that. Gas was under a 1$

[@janetcw9808]

There is a channel in USA called Adventures with Purpose, these are hardie guys with all the equipment for hoying vehicles out and pursue very many cases of lost souls. Good wishes 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Silenceisgolden25]

Hoping they find Randy for his parents ❤️

[@aye70aye]

Thats a great organisation for sure Janet. Its such a HUGE winding river the Sacramento with zero barriers in many places. I fear they could be searching from now until the end of time and not find the car unfortunately :(

[@thetwelfth9987]

Something similar to another case I had heard of might have happened, where to young women went for a drive never to be seen again. Almost 40 years later the car was recovered from a random lake, and their skeletons were still there, preserved by the swamp. They simply had a car crash and instantly died before sinking into the murky water, they weren’t even that far from home at the time, and yet their families wandered in darkness for decades thinking someone had murdered them.

[@bcvids9]

What a sad case... Weird behaviour from her dad! Thanks for another well researched video. Miss your face though. Take it easy🇨🇦

[@Deniseeee84]

Adventures with a Purpose need to take over this case !

[@indie1179]

Your videos are the best available on the internet.

[@loisreese2692]

@Dark Curiosities Excellent episode. Such a bloody shame and so very sad. You did a great job giving us all the details you could when there just aren't that many known. Cheers, friend!

[@blueroseramblings]

This showed up in my timeline today. Researching to be sure. 😳

[@cameronholmes5590]

What an odd case, there's always something eerie when a family straight up vanishes into thin air. And the lack of clues and evidence makes the case even more of a head scratcher

[@victimofheather]

What’s strange is her mother passed away in 2010 and Norma was listed as a survivor

[@kobrien4415]

They do that until someone is declared dead.

[@scallopohare9431]

It wouldn't have to be water the car went into. There's a part of Boston called Back of the Hill. When it was cleared up, there were cars the had not been visible. A car could go off the road into a heavily wooded area, the driver being unconscious, and not able to climb out.

[@Sunset553]

I don’t think there are heavily wooded areas just outside of Sacramento. It’s a river valley. If they drove for more than an hour or two towards the mountains, then it’s possible forest. It would help to know how long she would drive around.

[@suyen4999]

This is so sad for her family. I think they met with an accident and the car is submerged in water, or if on land, hidden from view.

[@anniebalsbaugh735]

I'm glad you covered this, I've never heard of it. Thank you!

[@jamesb.9155]

A few years earlier than this, my mother & I were on a cross country roadtrip and we had stopped by the side of the highway probably to look at a map. I somehow noticed suddenly that two men had exited a car parked somewhat behind us and they were walking up along side us, one each side of our car. Some alarm bells went off and I instinctively told my mother to put the car in gear and step on the gas at once and we sped out of there. I then explained what I saw. That was one of those times you don't know what might have happened. I was probably about 12 at the time.

[@jessxo4363]

I really think their car went into water, very sad

[@tessaducek5601]

I truly believe the car is in a lake, pond , river. So sad. 😢

[@ms.krueger2660]

Will we ever get to meet you?? 🤗 I watch your sisters channel and she is a delight! Love her Chanel and yours. 💜💚

[@loveforeignaccents]

Does the sister do true crime too? If so, can you leave me the link, please? Thanks.

[@TawnyC_]

@@loveforeignaccents Her sister is Kirsty Skye.

[@brin266]

@@loveforeignaccents yes she does true crime

[@natnickelton2663]

Great channel! You have an amazing voice! Big thumbs up!

[@wolfman75]

I hope they find out what happened. Thank You!!! 👍😎

[@littlereddstar5264]

It's only a matter of time before Google Earth or someone with a drone finds the car in a water way. They may have gone even further out than their home area. Plus how did they not have the color of the car? Or did I miss something about registration at the DMV? Or even with the car insurance company?

[@stephenpmurphy591]

Northern California is in the midst of a severe drought all rivers & lakes are at record lows. Drones could possibly spot a submerged car?

[@no_peace]

They didn't keep records the same way in the 70s and 80s and it was much more common to paint cars. But even now the DMV (where I live anyway) doesn't keep super specific records about car colors. My car is gold but it's listed as tan. No one would ever call it tan, it's not tan. It's not even metallic tan lol.

[@maxalberts2003]

Did she have insurance? She was poor, single and on welfare. (No judgement, just a statement.) Her sons looked very happy in the pictures.

[@russ549]

As most comments say they all could have ended up in a body of water somewhere, but im leaning towards it being foul play. Cause she is so beautiful and these things always happen in california and everywhere else for that matter too. Plus they would be very vulnerable out on some back road...

[@jamesl9371]

Write a letter to the police?!! Unbelievable. Never heard of anything like that. People know that now time is crucial

[@pokerbob05]

Love your narration

[@lisam.878]

Norma was simply beautiful

[@iseultbourke4692]

Yes and so were her sons. Maybe they met with foul play and the car was hidden on some remote property? It is another possibility....

[@poppyfield1619]

How terribly sad to never have answers to what happened. Let us not lose hope that one day, we will.❤🙏💐

[@loveforeignaccents]

Geez, sounds like a tragedy... wouldn't expect to find them after all this time.

[@kobrien4415]

This is a no brainer. They went for a drive,crashed and and went into the Sacramento river. When they dive to look for people, they arent very thorough. It's very possible they're still submerged down there..

[@debbieanne7962]

Straight away I thought to myself 'the car plunged into a lake or river' many times I have read about people's bodies being found years later in a car which had sunk into a body of water and when the water level goes down due to drought etc the vehicle is found

[@maxalberts2003]

Certainly by now (2022) after California has been dealing with its worst drought on historical record, every submerged vehicle in that state would have surfaced.

[@patriciajrs46]

Interesting case. I really don't have a clue. It's odd that her car has never been found. It were yellow, or gold it would have been much easier to bury in leaves and vegetation.

[@natashacutiepie6074]

They don't even know what color the car was of course it's never been found. People don't even know which color to look for. And how do they know the license plate but not the color of the vehicle assigned to the tag number 🤔Ridiculous. Not shocked this has never been solved.

[@zorazorazorzzora8333]

Ohhh my when did you come back, I thought you’d stop your channel. Hope you are well

[@RindaJane]

1/3/25 Adventures For Purpose are looking for Norma and her 2 sons as we speak. They are a dive team searching for missing persons ... free of charge for the grieving familes.

[@likemeordont5951]

Thanks to those amazing KZbinrs "Adventures With Purpose";" we now know that this can, and has happened, more often than anyone realized.

[@floatymoat]

It's so hard when somebody you know vanishes. Always those lingering questions are in the back of your mind. I'm not sure what's worse not knowing if it was a accident or if somebody was involved or if they just decided one day to walk off into the sunset. I have a friend who went missing no clue what happened. He just disappeared. Often I'm in the area where he was last seen and I occasionally find myself casting my eyes around wondering if he's dead in the area I'm passing. You just don't know.

[@joywebster2678]

Pacific ocean with high cliffs isn't that far away from Sacramento. It would be a simple trip with great views for a day trip and much cooler with ocean breezes. Also easy at points to drive over into the ocean.

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

It’s frightening that people can just seem to disappear into thin air, very strange the car has not been found in all them years, I think the car is most likely in a body of water or went over a cliff, sad case. 🙏

[@anikajain571]

I don't find it strange that an older gentleman in the 70's would write to the police, cellphones didn't exist, not everyone would have had a landline and people of that generation were used to writing important things by letter. Also without any sign of foul play he may have been giving them time to return and respecting his daughter's privacy, no-one knew what day they actually went missing. And back then there were time periods ppl had to wait before filing missing persons reports. What I find strange is that sources obviously differ between witnesses or reportings of the car, gold and blue are not easily mistaken for each other. Sadly I agree with most ppl, that the family are still in the car most likely in water or possibly thick forest. Dreadful to think of their fear realising their fate that way. I hope they are found and soon. ❤❤❤

[@CBeatty59]

People in California all had land lines in the 70s unless they were completely destitute and homeless.

[@no_peace]

Hundreds of thousands of households had no phone in California in 1980

[@noellegunning3301]

I agree

[@shotgunwound]

Yes agree on water theory, its a commonality that when the car is missing its a result of an accident and the car going into water.

[@MidnightDarkness666]

Jeez that car is simply gorgeous!

[@LindysEpiphany]

I would check the waterways for sure. No car after all this time points to an accident that ended up underwater. I'm finding this has occurred much more than I ever realized.

[@karenk3458]

I hope the family finds answers.

[@mathieuleader8601]

the debate over if the car was blue or gold reminds me of that dress meme from several years ago

[@sharonvictoria2434]

Wonder if they are any relation to Richard Hoagland who disappeared for 23 years but then his wife found him.

[@Col91016]

I read she did have a history of suicide attempts

[@darifaust7665]

A Richard Molina in Northern California ca.1995. He lived with an elderly man at the time. The age enhancement photo is astonishing.

[@paprikaasmr3420]

Quite the mystery 🤔

[@ea8269]

Baffling case. Perhaps they met with foul play somewhere. How come they don't know the car's color?

[@revmo37]

Love your videos ! Great content ! Is your accent Northern Ireland ?

[@bamaslamma29]

I’d bet money with the car never being found they might have accidentally driven into a body of water. It happens more frequently than people realize.

[@GenXfrom75]

Just a sad, devastating accident, I believe. Rip to this little family. 💔

[@kathygreen9651]

Very sad case. But, I really think her father may have known more.

[@racerx009]

(Guessing) Yeah, like him putting the car with them in it into a body of water.

[@perrywalton2464]

@@racerx009 he probably had alzheimer's

[@PoorRick]

How do they not know if the car is blue or gold? Is this another dress situation

[@Nativity1225]

I found that really odd too. The difference between blue & gold is extreme..not like silver or grey..how could they get this so wrong? Did they not get the exact color from the dmv or family?? So totaly bizarre.

[@EDDIELANE]

I just saw a documentary about people in Japan who “evaporate”. It’s very interesting. An actual industry.

[@Brock-uz8ni]

Sounds interesting.. What’s the name of the documentary?

[@dhanyzaffry4829]

How come,darling..??

[@finolaomurchu8217]

@@dhanyzaffry4829 Darling, you must find out how this happens, and then tell me Darling? Please 🧚‍♂️☘🤣

[@EDDIELANE]

@@Brock-uz8ni it’s called Vanishing without a Trace

[@victoriareissilveira9129]

Jouhatsu?

[@tinaconn3989]

I agree with most of the other comments. So many times in cases like these the cars are found in bodies of water. The only odd thing about this case is the woman’s father writing a letter to the police rather than using the telephone or going in person. I just cannot understand his logic of writing a letter, I hope that one day soon the family get their answers, they deserve some closure after all this time.

[@28Josereyes]

They looked like very nice and innocent people I hope they never suffered.

[@taurusr.8475]

The boys look just like her. 🥺 so sad.

[@TheChemistryGirl]

I'm sorry but these composite making people need to really step up their game and put more effort in their work. Wth is that at 9:52? It doesn't look like them, and you can literally tell it's the same template with eyes slightly modified. I find this soo infuriating in each case i watch its like these are the images that could lead to a person being discovered do a better job of making them look real and well done. They don't even smooth the eyes or anything, its like they don't care, so annoying! I personally find that so disrespectful to the missing people. Idk if im the only one who gets angered by this.

[@neneshubby]

I get the feeling that this has a very simple explanation. Probably a wreck and fell into the water

[@nassrakhan863]

This story is sooo sad!

[@irishis3]

There were so many active serial killers in that part of California in the late 70s. Many victims were never found also law enforcement officials did not communicate across the city and county lines so as a missing persons report it was probably never put on a BOLO list

[@jeremyd1298]

I saw a story about a group of teenagers who went out for a drive in 1970 in Oklahoma. Long story short, no one knew anything till a few years ago when their car was found, with their skeletal remains, submerged in a lake. I'm thinking like everyone else here that this is a strong possibility in this case, foul play or not. PS: Look up Foss Lake Oklahoma missing teens if you're interested. Also, another crazy one was a guy in Florida who vanished in 1997, William Moldt, his car found in a muddy pond close by in 2019...on Google Maps of all things! You can see his submerged car from a 2007 Google Maps image. Wild!

[@X1.7]

She’s in a body of water somewhere

[@mecahhannah]

Do you do follow-up videos if there is an update

[@OALM]

So sad, it's always weird when a whole group or family vanishes. It could've been anything, from foul play to just missing a turn or taking a wrong turn.

[@lynneshively3790]

The foothills are close as well, i.e., Auburn (I-80) or Coloma (Hwy 50). If they went off the road on one of those narrow curves, or they were forced off the road, they could be in the bushes/trees over the edge of the road.

[@LilDitBit]

Thank you 😁

[@erinthesystem9608]

It's nice that a car has a name which is pronounced so similarly to "lemon."

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Well, it was a LeMans... 😂

[@CBeatty59]

It’s a city in France and it’s not pronounced like “lemon” at all.

[@jacquiliddell7680]

Older people in those days would not like the stigma of someone seeing them going into a police station, he probably thought nothing bad but just strange

[@GoGreen1977]

I can't imagine that someone on welfare would not cash a welfare check if they were going on an extended trip. Also, I've heard of a few verified stories of how decades after the disappearance of a car and its occupants, the car with bodies was found in a body of water after the water level dropped or some long languishing information led to the discovery of the car. I lived in Sacramento in the 1980s. All summers are very hot. I can't imagine how miserable I would have been if I didn't have AC in my house and car. Those rivers, especially the American, must have looked very tempting.

[@jamesb.9155]

Such a tragedy.

[@missycitty9478]

So heartbreaking.

[@ar4203]

I agree that either the car is in water, or the only other thing that I could see making sense is that if they were basically forced out if home at gunpoint or some so that there wouldn't really be signs of foul play and the person could have either junked the vehicle, submerged it, or stolen it and altered it's appearance, or something else

[@caliden3785]

This is my city....I never heard of this case.

[@vr6swp]

There are many canyons and cliffs in CA. CHP is always finding cars that have run off the road and ended up at the bottom of a canyon

[@Tsumami__]

Aside from bodies of water, I think wooded areas right off of roads that haven’t undergone development over the years are possible, too. If someone falls asleep they could drive off the road and into the woods enough to where they wouldn’t be easily seen from the road/interstate. Especially if the car was damaged and/or wrecked in the process. I even wonder if the car could sit there for long enough to where if the area did get developed decades later and the car was removed along with other debris, workers may not even notice human remains in the vehicle while it was being towed out and moved to a junkyard or dump, if so much time had passed. They were such a cute family, it’s sad.

[@barron204]

Still loving the intro music.

[@valerieabney219]

If they drove by any lakes or rivers, then why can't they use something to see if a vehicle is at the bottom. Some people that went missing years ago have been found that way. So sad!

[@joywebster2678]

Sacramento River is big river. Also the ocean was only 2 hrs away to visit. If out for the day.

[@MegaDublinguy]

A car belong to a man who disappeared in 2004 has just been found in the sea off a south of Ireland town with skeletal remains inside.

[@lucyterrier7905]

Many missing people & families have been found with their cars in ponds, rivers & lakes. There have been those found up to 5 decades later. There are several groups that donate their time to look at the bottom of wayerways with sonar. It's unbelievable how many have been found in water.

[@Codehead3]

The car must be in the water somewhere.