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Meet the volunteers who work part-time solving missing persons cases across Florida

Orlando police have confirmed a vehicle belonging to a missing mother has been found, nearly 12 years later.

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that decade old Discovery involving a local missing woman on Sunday a sonar team uncovered remains in a submerged vehicle in a retention Pond not far from Disney the family of a missing woman Sandra lamir said the vehicle belonged to her but investigators are working to confirm the identity of the remains lamir vanished back in 2012 after going on a date with a man she met online tonight as we wait for confirmation we are speaking with that sonar team again about how their efforts are getting re
sults in missing person cases around the State new 6as Katherine silver has that story this is all time and and resources you all volunteer yeah believe it or not every one of us uh we're parents we're mothers fathers um we have full-time jobs we just do this I would say on average once a month Mike Sullivan started Sunshine State sonar with a mission to serve using time and Technology to search for the missing that's him in the water this weekend where he found Sandra Lam's van all right let's
call the Family you'll hear his brother there too how did you guys get into this how did you start I was inspired by you know YouTuber uh called adventures with purpose and they're a Oregon based search team and I says boy say there's such a need for this here in Florida we have so much water in Florida and so many people missing when we spoke yesterday you mentioned you had recently helped with another Discovery in South Florida that was similar to Sandra's situation yes so on that situation th
at's a crazy one during a different search in South Florida they came across this car on the side of the turnpike turns out it's tied to a case from three decades ago we contacted Miami dat police right away we gave them the license plate of the vehicle and uh when we did that police said it's not coming back in the system because it's so old 20 minutes later they call us back they said we found it they were investigating this person's homicide tell me about some of the other work you guys have
done in Florida we have been working 7 months on the school teacher from Port Orange everybody knew this guy if you lived in Port Orange you had Mr ha for school for a teacher five days after we found Robert haika we found Robert hrey um Robert hrey was missing 17 years father of two girls so these are six cases these are six families you've gotten results for yes six cases and we found we also found another set of remains which have not been identified in in dve Florida and the work continues C
and the Sunshine State sonar team say it's worth it for the families they find answers for to give them that piece of you know the information they need to let them move you know forward with their grieving process and we find these we Chang in these people's lives Katherine silver getting results news six

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