Michigan Searchers Find 3 Missing Tubers Safe After 48 Hours on Muskegon River

Q: With the missing trio found alive in the woods, what really caused the shattered car window at the boat launch?

There is no confirmed public explanation for the shattered car window. In the reporting available, Michigan State Police said only that the vehicle was found at the Maple Island Boat Launch with a broken window, which helped trigger the missing-person investigation. After Jazmin Hock, Sarah Vida and 9-year-old Kayden Kovalcik were found alive in the woods, authorities released no statement linking the damage to a crime, an accident, or anything the trio themselves did. Later coverage said police were withholding details about what led to the disappearance “out of respect for the privacy of those involved.” That means the broken window remains an unresolved detail in the public record. It may have been significant, or it may have turned out to be unrelated, but officials have not said. So the most accurate answer is that, based on publicly available information, the cause of the broken window is unknown.

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Three missing tubers — two 28-year-old women and a 9-year-old — were found safe at 4:36 p.m. Friday on the Muskegon River, Michigan State Police said.
A state police K-9 team and conservation officers located them nearly a mile from a boat launch about seven miles southwest of Maple Island Boat Launch, where one woman's car had been found with a broken window.
Two tubes and footprints discovered Thursday had helped focus the search, which began after relatives could not reach the group for more than 24 hours.
Nearly two dozen state police posts, law enforcement agencies and government departments joined volunteers in the search; authorities did not immediately detail the trio's condition or how they disappeared.