Bones found in submerged car belong to student missing since 1976 – sheriff

The bones found in a submerged Ford Pinto have been matched to missing student Ryan Clinkscales (Maj. Terry “Tj” Wood/Chambers County Sheriff’s Department via AP, File)

Human bones found inside a submerged car near the Georgia-Alabama state line in 2021 have been matched to a college student who had been missing for 47 years, a Georgia sheriff has said.

Kyle Clinkscales, 22, of LaGrange, Georgia, vanished in January 1976 after leaving the club where he worked as a bartender to return to school at Auburn University in neighbouring Alabama.