45-Year-Old Cold Case Heats Up After Crucial Piece of Evidence Is Discovered Underwater
Around 45 years ago, 22-year-old student Kyle Clinkscales of LaGrange, Georgia, made the familiar drive from his home to Auburn University. He was driving his white, two-door 1974 Pinto Runabout on Jan. 27, 1976, when…
Around 45 years ago, 22-year-old student Kyle Clinkscales of LaGrange, Georgia, made the familiar drive from his home to Auburn University.
He was driving his white, two-door 1974 Pinto Runabout on Jan. 27, 1976, when both he and the car disappeared. Since then, his disappearance has plagued investigators and family alike, especially as he was an only child, but the case went cold.
On Tuesday, his car was found.
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An unnamed person spotted part of the back of a car in a creek that runs under County Road 83, and they alerted the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office.
“Once they arrived on scene, they recovered the car from the water and it appeared to be an older model Ford passenger car with a 1976 Georgia tag with a Troup County decal,” a post by the Troup County Sheriff’s Office reads. “Chambers County contacted the Troup County Sheriff’s Office for assistance in trying to run the tag information.
“The Troup County tag office was contacted and investigators in our criminal investigations division began to check for any records we may have had.
“After verifying information, it was found that the tag and VIN matched that of a 1974 Ford Pinto Runabout which was the same car that Kyle Clinkscales was last seen driving on the night of January 27th.”