Missing NC Teens Drowned, Bodies Found In Car Submerged In SC River

Bodies of Jake Ziegler and Ray Pierce, two teens missing from North Carolina from Oct. 13, were found in a car submerged in a South Carolina river on Saturday night.

"The car was found submerged in the Wateree River on I 20 East near the 96 mile marker in South Carolina. The autopsy report on Jake & Ray was released today and the cause of death was drowning," a Facebook page dedicated to finding the missing teens said in a statement.

The boys were found by volunteer searchers from the Community United Effort (CUE) Center for Missing Persons out of Wilmington, North Carolina. CUE volunteers alerted authorities to a vehicle upside down in the river around 4:20 Sunday afternoon.

The authorities said they believe the car went off the left side of the road narrowly missing a guardrail, down a steep embankment and came to a stop in the river.

"There are tire tracks leading from I-20 down the embankment & it appears to be a harsh wreck," the post said.

Ziegler, 18, and Pierce, 17 were missing from Oct 13 after they left a party and told friends they were driving to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to see the sun rise.

Ziegler sent a Tweet from his account saying he wanted to get "intentionally lost." "Wish ray and I luck, were going to drive around until we don't know how to get home. #ExtreemBoredom #AttemptingToIntentionallyGetLost," he tweeted.

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