It was the night of January 27, 1976. Kyle Wade Clinkscale (22) left the Moose Club, a bar where he worked in his hometown of LaGrange, Georgia, United States. He was on his way to Auburn University, where he was studying, in Alabama. No one else has ever seen it.
From that day on, his research was intense. To rule out any kind of hypothesis, the researchers spent hours and made a huge effort. They also dredged the lakes. But they have never had positive results.
A mystery solved?
Today, 45 years later, the mystery of what happened to the young man has been solved. Is that finally the local authorities They found the 1974 Ford Pinto. that Kyle was driving, CBS reported.
After receiving a 911 call this morning warning of the presence of a vehicle in a stream in Cusseta, Alabama, police removed it. indoors, they found a student’s bag, his ID and even human remainssaid James Woodruff, Sheriff of Troup County, Georgia.
Kyle Wade Clinkscale was 22 when he disappeared on January 27, 197. Photo: Troup County Sheriff’s Office
“For 45 years we have been looking for this young man and we have been looking for this car,” the officer said. “We drained the lakes, looked here and there and looked at this theory and another theory, and we didn’t always find anything,” he added.
Kyle was an only child. His father died in 2007. His mother earlier this year. And he never gave up hope that his son would come home one day.said the sheriff. He added: “We always hoped to find her before she died. Just the fact that we found her and the car gives me a huge sigh of relief.”
Herb Cranford, the Troup County Attorney, told the outlet he would not comment as the investigation is ongoing.
Right now he is studying how many bones are in the vehicle and whether they are human remains.
However, Woodruff admitted that while he hopes the cause of death could be determined, it may also never be known. But “just the fact that we hopefully found him and his car brings me a huge sigh of relief,” he said.
“I want to see what the Georgia Bureau of Investigation finds in the car, how many bones you findif they find a skull, “Woodruff said.”Was he murdered and left there? Did he go off the road and crash there? It’s something we hope to find out, but it’s been 45 years. “
The car is very rusty and one of the doors was open. Photo: Troup County Sheriff’s Office
The car was not far from Interstate 85, which runs from LaGrange to Auburn. As for his condition, the authorities have detailed it it is very rusty and that one of the doors was open. However, I am still unable to tell if it has always been or if it has been opened due to the poor condition it is in.
During the extensive investigation conducted by Troup County authorities, Two people were arrested in 2005. about Kyle’s disappearance.
What happened to them? At the time, the young man’s parents received a phone call from a man who said he witnessed the disposal of his son’s body when he was 7 years old. He indicated that he was in a barrel, that he had been covered in concrete and that he had thrown him into a pond, CBS details.
One of those people was not charged with anything; the other declared guilty of misrepresentation and spent seven years and eight months behind bars.
Source: Clarin
