A Florida-based search team claims to have found the body of a mother of three who went missing over a decade years ago after meeting up with a man she met online.
Sunshine State Sonar announced the discovery of Sandra Lemire’s remains in a van that sunken into a pond near Disney World.
In a Facebook post, the group claimed to have found the 47-year-old’s body as well as her personal belongings.
Lemire was last seen in May 2012. She hailed from Michigan but moved to Florida to care for her grandmother, Pauline Varner.
‘If she said she was going shopping and would be back in an hour, she would be back in an hour,’ Varner told the Orlando Sentinel after Lemire’s disappearance.
Police said the mother of three was heading to Kissimmee to link up with a man she met on a now-defunct dating website, SpeedDate.com.
Lemire’s son, Tim Lemire, Jr. told WXYZ that he had discouraged her from meeting up with strangers.
‘I told her from day one just quit it, just meet the guy the old-fashioned way, not online,’ he said.
Lemire’s loved ones feared the worst when she did not return home, not even to pick up insulin for her diabetes.
Video surveillance showed that Lemire did meet with the man, a manager at a local McDonald’s, for about two hours. Police ultimately ruled out the man as a suspect.
The 47-year-old was last seen driving her grandmother’s 2004 red Ford Freestyle van.
Sunshine State Sonar claimed the car was a match to the one they found in the lake, including the license plate.
They revealed that the search had taken place across 17 months as they combed 63 bodies of water with detectives from the Orlando Police Department.
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