YouTubers hunt closure – and clicks – in US cold cases


Among the platform’s viral hits scoring billions of views is a niche of YouTubers who use sonar devices to search waterways for vehicles linked to US missing persons cases – and the bones they may hold. — AFP

WASHINGTON: A scuba diver wiped away the algae on a submerged car’s license plate and exclaimed: “It’s them!” That discovery of two long-missing American teens’ apparent remains was the latest tragic find for a subculture of YouTube sleuths.

Among the platform’s viral hits scoring billions of views is a niche of YouTubers who use sonar devices to search waterways for vehicles linked to US missing persons cases – and the bones they may hold.

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