Four teenagers from the Arnold area, as young as 17, were arrested, but a 20 year old Air Force E-3 was convicted
In January 2002, Missouri Water Patrol divers found the $100,000 car at Lake of the Ozarks, submerged in 12 feet of water.
It had been stolen a month earlier from a parking lot in Arnold, a St. Louis suburb, while in a transport trailer. In June 2002, the Air Force court-martialed Robert N. Clerkin, 20, of Arnold, for larceny of the car.
According to the New York Post, the vehicle had its stereo system ripped out before the car was dumped into the Lake of the Ozarks. The reason for the drowning act was because the alleged thief — or thieves, as the original report claimed four men were involved — discovered some paperwork in the car that identified its famous owner
via Dave Eames wonderful illustration:
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