PLANTATION, Fla. – Officials have identified the remains pulled from a pond over the weekend in Plantation.
The discovery brings to an end a decades-old cold case.
Noon report:
Volunteers with Sunshine State Sonar say they found the remains of missing Broward mother Libby Ann Dibenedetto.
Using sonar imaging, her car was located in a retention pond off of Sunrise Boulevard and Flamingo Road on Sunday.
Dibenedetto was reported missing in 2000 after a night out with friends at Duke’s Bar and Grill in Davie.
“The night of her disappearance, Libby’s last known action was making a phone call to her therapist from a payphone near N Pine Island Rd and West Sunrise Boulevard,” Sunshine State Sonar posted on its Facebook page Tuesday. “Following this call, all contact with Libby ceased. She was never seen or heard from again, and her gold 1996 Toyota Camry was never found. Libby was 35 years old at the time of her disappearance and the mother of three young children.”
According to the company, Dibenedetto’s car was found at the bottom of the 13-feet-deep pond.
“Very sad to think that she has been here this whole time. Hopefully the family will get some closure now,” Dulcita Bare, who lives nearby, said.
For this case alone, Sunshine State Sonar searched about 400 bodies of water and deployed their team to 36 of those.
They are just hopeful now that finding Dibenedetto will provide some closure to her family.