A pair of fishermen who stumbled upon a sunken vehicle on the Mississippi River in Minnesota may have inadvertently helped solve a missing person cold case from the 1960s, authorities say.

Brody Loch and James Ham, the fisherman who found the submerged car, told CBS News Minneapolis affiliate WCCO that the sonar device they were using to locate fish over the Aug. 9 weekend pinged something unusual after a lucky catch.

“When (Ham) caught the fish, I turned the transducer around and, ‘Boom!’ There it was just sitting on the bottom,” Loch said of the ’60s-era Buick sedan.

“It was 100 per cent luck,” he continued. “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 first found the vehicle on Aug. 9, but

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