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Sheriff: Long-missing Vehicles, Bodies Found in West Oklahoma Lake

Foss Lake Association

ELK CITY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma authorities have recovered two vehicles from a lake that contain the bodies of five people who may have been missing for decades.

The cars recovered from Foss Lake in western Oklahoma may solve cold cases from the late 1950s and 1970.

The Daily Elk Citian reports that the vehicles appear to match a Camaro missing with three Sayre teenagers since 1970 and an older Chevrolet with two Canute residents missing since the late 1950s or early 1960s.

Dive teams testing sonar located the cars and the medical examiner's office was brought in after skeletal remains were found.

Authorities have not identified who the remains belong to.