SARTELL, Minn. — Investigators in central Minnesota say human remains discovered inside a can sunk in the Mississippi River are likely connected to a man who disappeared nearly 60 years ago.

The sunken car was originally spotted on Sunday when a fisherman detected it on his sonar finder and reported it to authorities. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office and Sartell police closed Riverside Avenue on Wednesday as a dive team located the vehicle and helped remove it from the river.

In a pair of press releases Thursday morning, Sartell police and the Stearns County Sheriff's Office said the recovered vehicle was a Buick from the 1960s, adding that the vehicle appeared to have been underwater for decades and was intact but "severely deteriorated."

The Buick was brought to the Sartell PD f

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