WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) - A missing man's remains were found in a car submerged in a retention pond thanks to someone using Google Earth. 

William Moldt went missing at 40-years-old in 1997 according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

His skeletal remains were found in a car in a retention pond this week. 

On Thursday, someone who used to live in the Grand Isles neighborhood of Wellington was looking at the neighborhood on Google Earth when he zoomed in on the lake and saw what looked like a car, according to the Associated Press. 

The former resident contacted a current homeowner, who confirmed it was a white car on the edge of the pond behind his house using a drone. 

Then, the man called the sheriff's office on Aug. 28. Deputies later found the white sedan's outside "heavily calcified," before finding the remains inside. 

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, Moldt went to a nightclub in November 1997 but didn't seem like he was drunk when he left before midnight. 

He called his girlfriend from the club and said he would get home soon. 

The neighborhood was under construction when Moldt went missing, but the pond was already there.