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Yie Song, 30 and her husband Yinan Wang, 31
A deputy watching news footage of the crash spotted the license plate and discovered it didn't belong to the other missing couple's vehicle? Good for her, yikes for the officers in charge of the investigation.
A San Diego man and his wife, who have been missing for more than a week, are believed to have crashed off a Sequoia National Park cliff in nearly the same spot where two foreign exchange students plunged to their deaths last month, officials said.
A trail of car parts led investigators to the Kings River, 500 feet below a Highway 180 bend, where at least part of the couple’s car was located. Tony Botti, a spokesman for the Fresno Sheriff’s Department said the car is mostly submerged in white-water rapids, so they haven’t been able to determine if the vehicle is intact or if bodies are inside.
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A team has been working to retrieve their bodies, but their vehicle is in a precarious spot, making the recovery mission difficult.
While watching news footage of the crash site, the deputy spotted a license plate, Botti said. It didn’t belong to the car of the exchange students, so she reported it to the California Highway Patrol. At that time, authorities didn’t know of the missing couple.
Once a missing persons report was filed, investigators learned of the license plate and discovered it belonged to the couple’s Ford Focus.
Botti said the crashes appear to be “a strange coincidence,” and that there is nothing particularly dangerous about that stretch of road. The crashes occurred about 50 feet from each other. Investigators aren’t sure why either crash happened.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-missing-couple-20170814-story.html