Twelve years ago, Ilya Zhirnov and Kira Cherkasova, two young women, ages twenty-five and twenty-two, respectively, disappeared from the city of Cheboksary in central Russia. Nobody knew what had happened to them until the amateur diver found their car at the bottom of the river.

The car had been underwater for almost a decade, according to the authorities.

Identity documents that survived the underwater submersion were used by the authorities to identify the two persons who went missing. Inside the car, the diver discovered two bodies along with the belongings of the young people.

This is a devastating finding, but it may offer new information about the case.

The first theory put up by the police states that nobody saw or reported the couple’s accident to the authorities after they lost control of their automobile on the slippery road and ended up in the river.