FOUND HIM DIVER SOLVES COLD CASE

#solved #coldcase #truecrime On May 28, 2026, Charles Haywood came home. It took 18 years, a sonar scan, and a solo dive in the Green River — but his family finally had answers. In July 2008, 91-year-old Charles William Haywood left Owensboro Medical Health System in Owensboro, Kentucky, and vanished. His black 2002 Ford Ranger disappeared with him. Law enforcement searched. The family waited. For nearly 18 years, there was nothing. Adventures With Purpose covered this mission area and shared this video. I'm Trey Lombardo — I search waterways for missing persons and submerged vehicles at no cost to families, operating under Narked Divers out of Carbondale, Illinois. During a sonar search of the Green River near the Spottsville Boat Ramp in Henderson County, Kentucky, I located a submerged vehicle matching Charles Haywood's target profile. I recovered the license plate. Registration confirmed: 500 DZM. Charles William Haywood's 2002 Ford Ranger — missing for nearly two decades. I contacted Owensboro-Daviess County Dispatch at 11:47 a.m. The Owensboro Police Department, Henderson County Sheriff's Office, and Ohio Township Fire Department Dive Team responded. The truck was recovered that afternoon. The following morning, investigators searched the vehicle and located skeletal remains, a wallet, and identification believed to belong to Charles Haywood. Final identification was pending confirmation through the Kentucky Medical Examiner's Office. His family was present during the recovery. After 18 years, they finally had answers. This is the complete search timeline — sonar footage, target investigation, license plate recovery, and the decision-making process from that day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 Green River | Henderson County, Kentucky 📅 Missing: July 2008 | Located: May 28, 2026 🤝 As seen by Adventures With Purpose ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Charles Haywood: The Case 0:21 - Who Is Trey Lombardo | Narked Divers 1:02 - How This Search Started | September 2025 1:40 - Adventures With Purpose Connection 2:01 - Final Scan Decision | Back to Green River 3:37 - Joe Pruden Boat Ramp | Search Begins 7:40 - First Sonar Targets 10:38 - TRUCK LOCATED ON SONAR 11:12 - Marking the Target | Dive Planning 12:47 - First Dive Attempt | Solo Operations 22:40 - Confirmed On The Truck | Underwater 36:27 - License Plate Recovery 42:38 - Visual Confirmation | Black Truck, Windows Up 43:24 - PLATE CONFIRMED | 500 DZM | Charles Haywood 44:16 - Witness on the Water | Conversation at the Buoy 46:22 - Five Minutes of Silence for Charles Haywood 47:36 - Calling It In | Owensboro Police Department 48:08 - Live Dispatch Call 50:00 - Briefing Law Enforcement | Dive Debrief 53:54 - Recovery Operation Begins 1:00:13 - Truck Coming Up 1:02:08 - Door Open | Recovery in Progress 1:04:15 - Securing the Vehicle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for future recovery operations: https://www.youtube.com/@UCqRXaA5EM1lBrL5dNynMxuw 🌐 Website: https://www.treylombardo.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you know of a missing person case involving a submerged vehicle, contact me through the website above. All searches are conducted at no cost to families. #ColdCaseSolved #MissingPersonsRecovery #NarkedDivers #AdventuresWithPurpose #CharlesHaywood #UnderwaterRecovery #SubmergedVehicle #GreenRiver #Kentucky #MissingPersonsFound