International- A YouTuber's discovery may help solve the
missing persons cases of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel. - Foster and Bechtel went missing on April 3, 2000, in
Tennessee .
A YouTuber found a submerged car in a Tennessee river last month, and the discovery may have solved a 21-year-old
Jeremy Beau Sides, a YouTuber with more than 113,000 subscribers who uses sonar technology and scuba dives to help find evidence in missing-person cases, shared a video on November 24 in which he said he was searching for evidence in the case of 18-year-old Erin Foster and 17-year-old Jeremy Bechtel, who disappeared on April 3, 2000.
Sides' video went on to get more than 92,000 views.
White County Sheriff Steve Page said in a statement on Facebook that after he and Foster's family saw the video, he contacted Sides and suggested he look in another area.
Upon looking in the new area, Sides quickly found Foster's car in the Calfkiller River, according to another video on his YouTube channel, which has more than 674,000 views. Page confirmed in a Facebook post that the car belonged to Foster.
Investigators told CBS affiliate WTVF in Nashville that human remains were found in the car, and they will be sent out for genetic DNA testing.
"I'm lost for words," Sides said in his YouTube video. "I'm so glad I could find them. I'm so sad that that's where they ended up. I can't believe — it's been over 20 years that they've been sitting there waiting for someone to find them."
Details of how the car ended up in the river are still unknown. Page said in his Facebook statement that the case remains under investigation.