James Hinkle, who is apart of the Youtube channel Echo Divers, broke open a cold case about Donald Erwin, an Army veteran who went missing in Missouri’s Ozarks in 2013. Hinkle, who had been looking into Erwin’s case for the past year, found Erwin’s car in a pond through aerial drone footage.
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Yo this is gotta be the best form of publicity for this guy, not many people do the thing the news reports on as if they did it
Thank you for bringing him home.
I think this is the best Christmas present that could happen in these circumstances. He's home with his family now & they can find peace after finally finding out for sure.
The news still reports youtubers like unemployed people, yet they make more and more people watch them than any news station.
I feel like if his sister was working with this guy, this was already the outcome she was expecting and seeking, so I'm not surprised she was still glad to have such an answer even on Christmas. Closure is so important, even if the answers you get are tragic. You have to know what happened in order to truly complete the grieving process.
Amazing
that’s unfortunate their police force couldn’t find that car after so many years..when this guy runs a drone over the lake and sees it
Til you can throw hay into a pond to clean it…
This shows you how worthless police are. They need to pay people with functioning brains instead of the mindless power mongers that they hire.
Rest in peace soldier. He looked like a cool dude. Hope his family is finally at peace.
They CLOSED the case
We should probably be checking more waterways…
Another you-tuber doing this is Adventures With Purpose
So cool that someone can get a detective's badge out of a corn flakes packet and get results in no time at all compared to a paid official badge 😮
very old background photo of chicago
My brother was a tow truck driver. The company he worked for had the city contract for police tows. The police had him out to recover a car that had just gone into a lake. The divers hooked up the car, and he pulled it out. The divers found that it was sitting on top of another car that had been in the lake a long time, so he pulled that one out, too. Unfortunately, it had the remains of someone who had gone missing years ago.
so why in the world do so many cars end up in the water? the bigger question
Youtubers doing this need to be hired to talk at law enforcement conferences or sell elearning stuff. Some of these people in the water are found like a mile from their house, but cops didnt think/know to check. 😢
now pay him, when police can't do their job but a youtuber did something they couldn't do, sheeeeesh
Still surprised by how many people go missing in waterways ponds and it's not even on cops radar
Needed to find another group that did this after info on the founder of "group that will not be named" came out
I'd rather the police be doing this than trying to take away people's constitutional rights
Wow
Is he the one who found the elderly woman too and some other case?
I thought someone use google maps satellite view or google earth to find it, forgot what one
THESE GUYS HAVE FOUND LOTS OF MISSING PEOPLE they are real heroes.
2013, what a year.
James Hinkle is my Dad's name. He passed in 22013. Kind of shocked me seeing it.
…next time the authorities tell you they're doing all they can.
"No, you gave me my brother back"
That is so profound when you really think about it. I'm glad his family finally got their closure and peace.
Thank you Sir for providing a veterans family some much needed closure.
Should have posted his channel, yall garbage
“Just before Christmas”….”Why doesn’t anybody say, “Just before Kwanza”?
Closure for his family…. Priceless. Thank you for what you do!! 💜🙏💜
A job to do, yeah right… he ONLY pursued it for views, attention, and clout 😂
Rest in Peace my friend and thank you for your service 🇺🇸 🙏🏼
Was he in the car