A scuba-diving YouTuber, who is on an ongoing mission to locate missing people, found the car of two teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 2000 in Tennessee, CNN reports.
On December 1, authorities in White County confirmed that a car that matched the description of the vehicle used by 18-year-old Erin Foster and 17-year-old Jeremy Bechtel was found decades after the two went missing in April 2000.
In an interview with CNN, Jeremy Beau Sides whose YouTube channel is titled Exploring with the Nug, said he learned about the cold case as he searched through a missing persons database.
"When I saw two teens went missing and vanished in a car, that really stood out to me," Sides said. "When I looked at the town where they were last seen, I saw that a big river ran through it. That just told me to go."
Sides, who is a self-described one-man crew and records as well as edits entirely on his own, grabbed his equipment and made his way to Sparta, in White County, Tennessee.
Early on in his search for the missing adolescents, he had little success but in November, his initial video attracted the attention of one of Foster's relatives and through them, White County Sheriff Steve Page.
Page revealed in a statement that he contacted Sides to suggest searching in a different location - along the Calfkiller River.
That is where Sides discovered the vehicle that had been missing for decades.
The YouTuber shared footage of the moment he found the car, in which he is heard saying: "Whoa, oh OK, that's 100% a car in front of my face. I've been looking all day, and I finally found a car."
When Sides contacted the emergency services, the police team "arrived on the scene within minutes to investigate, which led to the confirmed match of the vehicle," authorities said.
The finding was exciting, but "sad because that means two teenagers have passed away," Sides added.
He also told the outlet that he hopes the discovery will help bring some closure and peace to families of the missing teenagers. "Ultimately, I just want to help," he said.
