that GTX that the cops didn't bother to find the owner of (proving how useless police detectives are!) had a box in the trunk with the owners name

The owner asked a buddy to store it, and everyone forgot about it.

The buddy, Craig McIntosh, whose name was found on a shipping label in the trunk, at the time lived in Michgan, put the GTX in storage there, and then moved to Georgia. The buddy (who isn't ever named, and never given a reason for abandoning this GTX) doesn't live in Michigan

The clue that cracked the case was in the trunk, which had been locked and was opened recently by the towing company. Inside was a replacement carpet kit from Auto Custom Carpet, ordered on August 12, 2002

 “The car isn’t abandoned, it belongs to a friend of mine,” McIntosh says. “He was dealing with some personal stuff back then, and I was trying to help him out by taking care of it and putting it in storage. I thought the car was gone a long time ago.”

McIntosh was stunned to learn that the Plymouth was being auctioned, since he thought it had already been sold. McIntosh insists he was contacted by law enforcement “years ago,” and he offered to pay the car’s outstanding storage balance if he could take possession of his friend’s car, but without proof that he owned the GTX or was representing the owner, the Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office refused to release it to him—and rightly so, he admits.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/06/05/owner-of-1969-plymouth-gtx-barn-find-steps-forward?

I guarantee this is a case of making the car disappear so that guy's wife couldn't sell it during the divorce, couldn't find it for child support!