Submerged Vehicles May Contain Secrets
The city of Houston refuses to pull vehicles that may contain missing persons out of the hundreds of miles of bayous surrounding the city.
Tim Miller, founder of a non-profit seach organization called Texas Equusearch, which has helped find hundreds of missing people, both dead and living that the police have been unable to find, wants Houston to remove vehicles located in bayous as a possible solucion to some of the cold missing persons case files. There are over 130 targets which contain vehicles and possibly contain bodies, according to sonar experts from Equusearch.
The City of Houston says it is simply too expensive to pull all the vehicles out of the bayous. When it comes to a missing family member, though, that is a hard argument to make with the families. If even one of those vehicles contains a person who is missing, most families feel the cost is warranted. There is also a significant environmental benefit to pulling vehicles loaded with toxic materials out of major waterways.
Texas Equusearch uses high technology to accomplish what police often cannot, the return of a loved one. The organization has used sonar to locate missing people in high profile cases. Miller's organization recently attacked the Federal Aviation Administration for it's over-regulation of drones which have been effective in finding missing people. Ralph Baird headed the equusearch portion of a private search for the historic schooner Nina after extensive delays by New Zealand turned the potential search grid into the milkey way.
