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It took 22 years, but a missing man’s remains have finally been found — and it was all thanks to Google.

A former resident of Moon Bay, Wellington, Florida, did a Google search on August 28 on his old neighbourhood when he noticed something bizarre. He spotted a car seemingly submerged in a lake in one of the Google Earth satellite images, the BBC reports.

Once authorities were notified, the skeletal remains of Florida man William Moldt, who went missing in 1997 at age 40, were found inside the submerged vehicle.

A spokesperson for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Teri Barbera, told AP reporters the former resident of the Grand Isles neighbourhood wasn’t entirely sure of Google Earth’s accuracy.

The man then contacted a current homeowner, who used his own personal drone to confirm it was a white car on the edge of the pond behind his house.

The man then called the sheriff’s office, and deputies later arrived to find the white sedan’s exterior “heavily calcified” and Mr Moldt’s remains inside.

According to a report by the Charley Project — an online database of cold cases in the US — 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”.

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According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, Mr Moldt went to a nightclub in November 1997 but did not appear intoxicated as he left alone before midnight. “He also was not a frequent drinker but did have several drinks at the bar,” the report said.

He had called his girlfriend from the club saying he would return to their home in Lantana, Florida, soon.

The subdivision was under construction at the time of Mr Moldt’s disappearance, but the pond was already there.

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office told the BBC Mr Moldt was presumed to have lost control of his vehicle and driven into the pond.

Barry Fay, who found the car, told The Palm Beach Post he had never noticed anything from the shoreline.

“Never did I believe there would be a 22-year-old dead body,” Mr Fay told the newspaper.

Mr Moldt’s family has been informed about the discovery of his remains.

— with AP