Six Bodies Were Discovered In Two Cars Found On The Bottom Of Lake Foss In Oklahoma.

Investigators have found a sixth body in one of two rusted-out cars pulled from an Oklahoma lake.

The discovery may solve the dual mysteries of a set of teens who disappeared in 1970 and a trio of grown men who went missing in the late 1950s or 1960s.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol spotted the cars while testing out new sonar equipment in Foss Lake on the western edge of the state.

Divers later returned and hauled a crumbling 1969 Camaro and a 1950s Chevrolet from the muddy bottoms.

They found bones in both cars and a human skull in the water.

Investigators now say they’ve uncovered six bodies — three skeletons in each car.

They have yet to confirm the names, but relatives had already begun to gather at the water’s edge.

Debbie McManamman’s grandfather, Alvi Porter, drove a green Chevy, like the one divers found, before he disappeared when she was 13.

“I remember that green car, yes,” McManamman told KFOR-TV. “It’s sad. I mean, I can still see his tall, lanky body walking up to the car.”

The Camaro matches one driven by 16-year-old Jimmy Allen Williams, the Elk City Daily reported. The teen went for a drive with friends Thomas Michael Rios and Leah Gail Johnson on Nov. 20, 1970.

Williams was supposedly headed for a football game in Elk City, but he and his friends vanished, terrifying small town parents.

The two cars rested side by side, decaying under 12 feet of water for more than four decades.

Stories of the missing teens hung over their hometown of Sayre, Okla., ever since they disappeared.

Kim Carmichael said she was a friend of Williams.

“I just remember how devastated everybody was,” Carmichael told News 9. “We lived in a little town. … Nothing like that ever happened in Sayre.”

Carmichael’s father was the undersheriff of nearby Beckham County when the teens vanished.

“He said there was nothing. … There were no leads, no nothing,” Carmichael said. “He said it was just like they vanished into thin air.”

The case weighed on her father for years, and he died in 2003 with it still a mystery.

“I can’t imagine what (Williams’) family was going through if I could see what my dad was going through,” Carmichael said.

The new discovery was an accident as troopers from the highway patrol scanned the lake bottom.

Even the images of the cars didn’t prepare them for the grisly truth.

“We thought it was just going to be stolen vehicles, and that’s not what it turned out to be, obviously,” spokeswoman Betsy Randolph said.

Authorities hope the case will provide answers for long-suffering families.

“We’re hoping these individuals, that this is going to bring some sort of closure to some families out there who have been waiting to hear about missing people,” Randolph said. “If that’s the case, then we’re thrilled we were able to bring some sort of closure to those families.”

The Custer County Sheriff’s Department, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation and the state Medical Examiner’s Office all spent Tuesday at the lake.

Sheriff Bruce Peoples told the Elk City Daily News he was a “little more comfortable matching the three missing teens to the Camaro, and investigators had some promising leads on the people found in the Chevy.

“But we’re a long way from saying it’s solved yet, because we just don’t have that much confirmed,” Peoples said.