The philanthropic group found the car while it was eight feet under water. According to the police, the human remains in the car will be transported to the Arkansas State Crime Lab in Little Rock for DNA testing.
The Pope County Sheriff’s Office expressed its sympathies to the families of Samantha Hopper and Courtney Holt and expressed gratitude for having had even a little part in solving the 23-year-old case.
Dezarea Hopper, Hopper’s daughter, claimed on a memorial page that her mother was nine months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Dezarea’s sibling was about 2 years old at the time. Finding their bodies, in Dezarea’s words, was “relieving.”
Adventures With Purpose released a statement saying that Samantha and her daughter had now been returned home.