CHENEY — A local fisherman helped resolve a 33-year-old mystery recently.
The Wichita Eagle reported John Mounce of Wichita was fishing in Cheney Reservoir May 29 when a sonar device tipped him off that a large object was below the water’s surface.
A livescope gave him a grainy glimpse of the object: the rusting, corroded remnants of a Jeep.
Authorities pulled the vehicle from the water, and soon realized it had been reported stolen in Wichita in 1990, the Eagle reported. Authorities contacted the owner, who confirmed reporting the vehicle stolen 33 years ago.
It was not known how the vehicle wound up at the bottom of the lake.
Because an insurance claim for the vehicle had been paid out years ago, the fate of the vehicle now belongs to the insurance company that paid for it, the newspaper reported.
