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Ruth Hemphill was an 82-year-old woman who went missing from Oak Ridge, Tennessee in July 2005. Her car was located in early November 2021. Diver and sonarist Jeremy "Nug" Sides, who runs the Youtube channel "Exploring with Nug," found the car in Melton Hill Lake. Remains believed to be Mrs. Hemphill's were inside. (note: as of November 13, 2021, the remains are still undergoing official identification)

Case Background

Miriam Ruth Hemphill (who went by her middle name), of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, disappeared from the Kingsley Road house she shared with husband Bill in 2005. Her car, a tan or beige 1999 Buick Le Sabre, went missing too. Mrs. Hemphill was believed to be distraught at the time of her disappearance. She left a note, speaking about their recently-deceased daughter, Connie, as well as other clues, but it was not specifically a suicide note. She took "very little money" and no extra clothing.

Police initially believed Ruth had crashed on one of the countless remote roads around Oak Ridge; they searched wooded areas and sent notices through Knoxville and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but came up empty. As the months wore on, Oak Ridge Police began to believe she had disappeared of her own volition. Her husband Bill agreed. Ruth had been depressed since the suicide of their daughter, Connie, three months earlier. He later found a newspaper clipping about someone who had driven into the lake and died. Ruth had cut it out. Bill later moved away from Oak Ridge, unable to stay in the house he had shared with his beloved wife. He passed away in 2016.

Recent Developments

In 2021, diver Jeremy "Nug" Sides set out to research cold cases for his Youtube channel, Exploring with Nug, and came across Ruth Hemphill's case. He decided to use side-scanning sonar to detect anomalies on the bottom of Oak Ridge's Melton Hill Lake. The process was complicated by unrelated cars that had been dumped over the years. (Sides located seven different vehicles on the lakebed) One anomaly, however, particularly resembled Hemphill's car, a 1999 Buick. Further diving revealed the sunke

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Source: https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1471946254066372620?s=20