According to Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, the two divers from Chaos Divers who found a missing Martins Ferry three years after their June 2018 disappearance also discovered 12 cars and one truck in the Ohio River along the Steubenville Marina.
The Illinois-based diving team found 66-year-old Brian Goff and 55-year-old Joni Davis inside Goff’s light blue 1990 Oldsmobile Delta 88 on Nov. 11 about 1.5 mile north of the Rayland Marina. The vehicle was submerged in 8 feet of water about 15 feet off the shoreline, according to what the divers reported to local media.
Investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal and Federal Bureau of Investigation, the sheriff said, continue to investigate the causes of death.
The members of Chaos Divers were in the area during a search of Karen Adams, a resident of Hancock County, W.Va., who vanished in 2007, and Sheriff Abdalla asked for a favor.
“When they were in town, I asked them to go out to the Steubenville Marina to see what they could see, and they found at least 12 cars and a truck in the river,” Abdalla revealed. “People steal them and then they run them into the river. That’s how they get there.
“But those divers did check every vehicle to make sure there were no bodies in them,” he said. “They did that search at the same time they found that couple from Martins Ferry.”
