Fisherman who found car tied to 1960s cold case calls discovery "100% luck"

Minnesota ( WCCO ) -- In Sartell, Minnesota, an investigation is underway with ties to a decades-old cold case.

Investigators spent hours removing a car that was 20 feet under the Mississippi River on Tuesday, all thanks to a tip.

"When he caught the fish, I turned the transducer around and boom, there it was just sitting on the bottom," said Brody Loch, a fisherman from Watkins, Minnesota, who spotted the car.

Loch was using a Garmin Livescope — sonar — while fishing over the weekend with a friend.

"It was 100% luck," Loch said. "If my buddy wouldn't have caught that walleye, then we would have just kept on floating down and never would have found it."

Loch spotted the 1960s-era car for the first time on Saturday, before returning on Sunday with his family to check again. He then c