William Moldt Missing 22 Years — Car Found Submerged in Pond Via Google Maps

On November 7, 1997, 40-year-old William Moldt left a party in Wellington, Florida alone, in his white Saturn, and was never seen again. His disappearance was reported and investigated, but despite search efforts in the area, no trace of him or his car was ever found. The case went cold. Twenty-two years later, in 2019, a current resident of a home adjacent to a small retention pond in Wellington was using Google Maps satellite view and noticed what appeared to be the outline of a car on the pond floor. The image had been visible in satellite views for over a decade. The homeowner contacted authorities, who drained the pond and found William Moldt's white Saturn exactly where the satellite image showed it — fully submerged, with Moldt's skeletal remains inside. His manner of death was ruled accidental — he had apparently driven off the edge of the road into the pond in the dark. But for 22 years, the car was there, visible from space, in a residential neighborhood, just feet from homes. No one had noticed it until someone looked at a satellite map.