Google Earth helps solve a Florida cold case

Wellington, Fla. — It took 22 years, but a missing man's remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera says the skeletal remains were of William Moldt, who went missing in 1997.

Barbera says a previous resident of Wellington, Florida, was checking his former neighborhood on Google Earth when he saw what looked like a car in the lake.

The former resident contacted a current homeowner, who used a drone to confirm it was a white car. Deputies then found the remains.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System says Moldt went to a nightclub in November 1997 but didn't appear intoxicated when he left alone.