Missing elderly woman's car found submerged in Ormond Beach pond; body inside

The search for missing 79-year-old Rose Bruce may be over with a dive team having spotted her car and a body in it, possibly her's, in a pond near her residence.

ORMOND BEACH -- The car of missing 79-year-old Rose Bruce, reported missing Monday, was found submerged in a pond across from her apartment complex residence. A body was found inside, but the authorities have yet to confirm it is her.

"Based on the description and tag number, Sheriff's divers have confirmed that the submerged vehicle is Rose Bruce's car," Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said in a statement released to the media just before 4:30 p.m.

 "While the vehicle hasn't been extracted yet from the pond, divers were able to make out what appears to be an unidentified body inside the car."

The Sheriff’s dive team located the missing 1997 blue Honda Accord registered to Rose and bearing Florida tag K38-3JA, submerged in a pond at the corner of Hand Avenue and Williamson Boulevard near Ormond Beach, just east of the San Marco apartment complex where the elderly woman has resided.

The Sheriff's office did not release any details on the position of the car nor how it ended up there, whether she simply drove it into the pond or whether it was pushed in by someone else. No information on where the bosdy was located in he vehicle was released either.