Florida officials are trying to determine if remains found in a pond near Disney World are of Sandra Lemire, a woman who inexplicably vanished in 2012 after leaving to meet a date.
According to Fox 25, Sunshine State Sonar divers found a submerged vehicle Sunday morning that family members say belonged to Lemire’s grandmother. Florida Highway Patrol said the vehicle entered the water while traveling on the southbound exit ramp from SR 417 to World Drive.
The driver may have veered off the roadway to the left and subsequently landed in the retention pond.
According to Lemire’s son, Tim, she left for a date in her grandmother’s 2004 red Ford Freestyle van on May 8, 2012, and never returned home. Security footage showed she met up at a Kissimmee McDonald’s restaurant with the date, a man she met on an online dating site, and then left after around two hours later.
Police said the man was eliminated as a suspect, but Tim said in 2012 that he had warned his mother to stop meeting dates online.
“I told her from day one just quit it, just meet the guy the old-fashioned way, not online,” he said, according to DailyMail.
Police haven’t officially confirmed the identity of the remains, pending a medical examiner’s report.
The story is developing. Check back for updates.
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[Feature Photo: Sandra Lemire/Facebook]
