{"id":1478043,"date":"2022-05-17T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478043"},"modified":"2022-05-17T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:30:29","slug":"a-former-mayor-went-missing-a-year-ago-his-car-was-just-found-under-40-feet-of-water-with-human-remains-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-former-mayor-went-missing-a-year-ago-his-car-was-just-found-under-40-feet-of-water-with-human-remains-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"A Former Mayor Went Missing A Year Ago. His Car Was Just Found Under 40 Feet Of Water With Human Remains Inside."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-former-mayor-went-missing-a-year-ago-his-car-was-just-found-under-40-feet-of-water-with-human-remains-inside%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478043&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Willamette-River-scaled-e1652802776973.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The car of a former Oregon mayor who went missing last May was found Friday 40 feet under the Willamette River in Newburg, Oregon, with human remains inside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ralph Brown left his home in Cornelius, Oregon, on the evening of May 16, 2021, and never returned. According to his family, the 76-year-old suffered from dementia, and his last cell phone pings indicated that he drove in circles within a 30-mile radius from his home for four hours on the night he disappeared, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ralph-brown-missing-human-remains-found-submerged-car-former-oregon-mayor\/?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=news_tab#l3a8mmazy5q03k7lvoj\">according<\/a> to CBS News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOne of Brown\u2019s adult children was able to reach him on the phone the night he went missing but said he sounded confused and was unable to describe where he was. Brown was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s a year before he went missing,\u201d CBS reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Yamhill County medical examiner arrived on the scene after the remains were discovered but could not immediately identify them, authorities said, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/2022\/05\/missing-former-cornelius-mayors-car-found-in-willamette-human-remains-discovered-inside-vehicle.html\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to Oregon Live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brown\u2019s family said he was possibly seen on three occasions up to a week after his disappearance and released a timeline of possible sightings, KEZI <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kezi.com\/news\/human-remains-found-within-car-that-belonged-to-former-cornelius-mayor-ralph-brown\/article_c3c37ab2-d3d9-11ec-8bc3-87aa9ace54ea.html\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span>May 16, 6:30 p.m. \u2014 Brown leaves his home in Cornelius<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span>May 17, 5 p.m. \u2014 Brown may have been seen in Newberg on Springbrook &#038; Hwy 99<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span>May 23, 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Possibly seen at the North Trailhead of Silver Falls<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span>May 23, 5:10 p.m. \u2014 Possibly seen at gas station in Eagle Creek<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Brown\u2019s granddaughter, Megan Closson, said that on the night he went missing he told his wife he was going to \u201cgo home.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe all of a sudden one night told my grandma \u2018hey, I\u2019m going to go home,\u2019\u201d Closson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kezi.com\/news\/human-remains-found-within-car-that-belonged-to-former-cornelius-mayor-ralph-brown\/article_c3c37ab2-d3d9-11ec-8bc3-87aa9ace54ea.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201c[A]nd for him home was Astoria, [Oregon], that\u2019s where he grew up, and so we were thinking that he was trying to head off to Astoria,\u201d Closson said. \u201cHe grabbed the keys and she was disabled so she couldn\u2019t get up to chase him. So he took the keys and he left, and I think he was trying to head to Astoria but he got confused and then he ended up this way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After nearly a year of searching for the former public servant, a team of divers found his blue 2014 Nissan Sentra last Friday. The divers had searched the area for Brown\u2019s Sentra 10 times since he went missing and finally found the vehicle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe just couldn\u2019t let this one go,\u201d Jared Leisek of Adventures With Purpose said, according to CBS. The group focuses on cracking missing persons cases and underwater mysteries and claims they have helped solve more than 20 cases since 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brown was a lifelong public servant. Along with being the mayor of Cornelius in the early 1980s, he served as Forest Grove School Board member and worked as a principal and vice principal in multiple Oregon public schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAlthough it is sad, it is not a sad day for us,\u201d Closson said after her grandfather\u2019s car was found. \u201cIt is a happy day that we get the closure that we had wanted for so long. When I first got the call from my mom I just broke down in tears \u2014 happy tears. Because I was so glad that someone was still doing something and that \u2026 they gave us the answers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car of a former Oregon mayor who went missing last May was found Friday 40 feet under the Willamette River in Newburg, Oregon, with human remains inside.\u00a0Ralph Brown left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1483412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}