Oct 15 2021 1 mins 95
The Oregon-based group Adventures With Purpose located parts of Carey Mae Parker’s car during its first search at Lake Tawakoni in February.
On Friday, the group might have found remains of Carey Mae Parker herself.
Founder Jared Leisek confirmed late Friday that his team found human remains in a debris pile from Parker’s car near a causeway on the lake’s Waco Bay.
The dive group located Parker’s 1980 Buick Skylark in February and brought parts of it to the surface. Later searches by Department of Public Safety divers were unsuccessful, and Leisek’s group agreed to return this fall with different equipment.
According to a Parker’s sister, Patricia Gager, in a Facebook post, the divers retrieved a pelvis bone. Parker fractured her pelvis in an accident years before she went missing in 1991. That injury may prove useful in identifying any possible remains.
The Hunt County sheriff’s office didn’t immediately return calls late Friday.
But Leisek and Parker’s family say they’ll all be back tomorrow to finish the search.
For KETR News, I’m George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.
