A Chicago dive team went looking for a car in the Chicago River as part of an investigation into a 1970 cold case.
The case involved the disappearance of Edward and Stephania Andrews, who were last seen leaving a downtown cocktail party in 1970 in their yellow 1969 Oldsmobile 442.
Fox 32 reported an interview with Lindsay Bussick, manager of Chaos Divers, who detailed the night they vanished.
They were at a cocktail party at the Sheraton Hotel, which Sheraton, at that time, was located at 505 N. Michigan Avenue.
Missing persons reports say the couple had been drinking.
[Edward] actually crashed into the parking garage door and then it's believed that he went southbound in the northbound lanes, leaving the hotel that night, which would have put them in the Chicago River. They even at one time located markings and things on the pillars off of Lower Wacker Drive but no one has ever been able to locate them.
Unfortunately, the dive team still has not located the couple's car.
However, their search did uncover 97 other cars in the river.
97!
(And that was just the area between Cicero Avenue and Diversey Parkway.)
What is with Chicagoans and parking their cars in the river?
I mean I've driven in the Windy City, and I'll grant you that the parking options are atrocious, but I've never once looked at the river and said, "Hey, that looks like a decent place to leave the car."
Anyway, it doesn't sound like the cold case is any closer to being solved, but they did finally get that Nissan out of the water that's been bottoming out boats for years.
On Wednesday, the Chicago Police Department's Dive Team responded to the boat launch to recover one of the vehicles. Officials with the Chaos Divers say the vehicle was impeding boat traffic. When the Nissan was pulled from the river near 31st Street and Western Avenue, it was a mangled mess — in part due to larger boats striking it over time.
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