SUNRISE, Fla. – Authorities are getting closer to identifying human remains that were found in a submerged car in Broward County.
Those remains were discovered almost accidentally a little more than a month ago inside a retention pond outside Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise.
On Monday, Local 10 News learned the parents of a man who went missing from Fort Lauderdale were contacted that night. They gave a DNA sample and are now waiting to see if it’s a match.
A white, ‘80′s model Oldsmobile was submerged about 25 feet before it was recovered from the retention pond.
Sources told Local 10 News that 19 years after Tisdale went missing, an ID card belonging to Kareem Demarzo Tisdale was recovered in that white Oldsmobile, along with those human remains.
Tisdale was 30 when he went missing in 2005.
Tisdale’s parents submitted DNA for testing. They’re now waiting for those results to come in, along with some answers as to what happened to their son 19 years ago.
Local 10 News’ Layron Livingston spoke with Mike Sullivan back in January, just days after he and a team of divers discovered the sunken car.
“We were shocked that there was going to be someone in that vehicle… we didn’t expect it,” said Sullivan.
Sunshine State Sonar searches waterways, using sonar equipment, all in hopes of finding people who went missing in their cars.
The group was in sunrise working a different case, scanning for a different car, when they found the white Oldsmobile and called police.
Sunrise police said the car was last registered in 2005, and at the time, they were working on a positive identification.