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Mar 28, 2008 7:20 pm US/Eastern
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Van Pulled From Canal Belonged To Missing Youth
CORAL SPRINGS (CBS4) ―
Coral Springs Police say the van discovered in a canal was registered to Jeff W. Klee, who was 18 years old when he was reported missing in June of 1977. Forensic experts will determine if the bones found inside are his.
"Everyone always wonders what happened to Jeff," said friend Louis Greco.
Greco says Klee was a student at Coconut Creek High School, but that he disappeared one day out of the blue. "He vanished off the face of the earth one day. Just disappeared off the face of the earth," Greco said.
His sister is Sgt. Cyndy Klee of the Coral Springs Police Department.
Police worked with divers from the Broward Sheriff's Office to look through the wreckage in the canal, located along Southgate Boulevard, for vehicles that may have been driven into the canal or dumped into the canal for insurance fraud or other crimes.
They use a device called "side imaging sonar," which gives them great pictures thru the murky water.
Allison McManus knows first hand about waiting for answers. For 6 months, her nephew Matt Stirling was missing. He was found in the same canal in his truck.
The 35 member dive team at Broward Sheriff's Office would love nothing than to dive every day looking for cars and possibly missing people, but it's just not possible.
"We have road patrol, we have marine patrol officers, we have detectives in different areas of the agency and they have to be taken off of their primary duties to come and with us," said Steve Salach of BSO.
For more information, contact Dinorah Perry of the Missing Children International Ministries, located at 12289 Pembroke Road.
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