William Earl Moldt ( William Moldt ) was a 40 year old mortgage broker from Lantana (Palm Beach County), Florida who got disappeared on 7th November 1997. He was last seen leaving a nightclub, he was alone and did not appear intoxicated. A missing person investigation was launched by police but the case went cold after all of the attempts of finding William Moldt went in vain.
The mystery of Moldt's disappearance remained unsolved till 2019. That is when a previous resident ( Jerry Nyman ) of a property of Grand Isles in Wellington, Florida, about 30 kilometres west of Lantana, was looking at the area on Google Earth when he zoomed into a pond and saw what looked like a car.
The former resident contacted the current homeowner ( Barry Fay ), who used a drone to confirm that it was a white car on the edge of the pond behind his house. The man called the Sheriff's office on 28th August 2019, and deputies later arrived to find the white sedan's exterior was heavily calcified. When the vehicle was pulled, skeletal remains were discovered inside. Both the vehicle and the remains were sent to the Medical Examiner's Office for processing.
Later, the body was confirmed to be of William Earl Moldt.
Amazingly, the vehicle had plainly been visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no one had noticed it until 2019.
