Maine Police Say a Woman, 2 Children Died in a Submerged Vehicle

A Mount Desert woman and her two children were found deceased in a submerged vehicle in Roque Bluffs.

MDI, Maine Woman and Her Grandchildren Found Deceased in a Submerged Vehicle

Maine State Police have identified the deceased as:

• Sharon Bukulmez, 61, of Mount Desert
• Kinsley Grubb, 5, of Bar Harbor
• Sawyer Grubb, 3, of Bar Harbor

The two children were Sharon's grandchildren.

Maine Police Found a Woman and 2 Children in a Vehicle in a Pond in Roque Bluffs

Bukulmez were last seen at approximately 8:30 Saturday evening, leaving a family function in Jonesboro.

They were driving to Machias but never arrived.

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As law enforcement searched for the trio, the Bar Harbor Police Department obtained location information from Bukulmez's cellphone indicating a location in the water near the boat ramp at the end of Schoppee Point Road in Roque Bluffs.

Maine State Police Divers and the Maine Marine Patrol responded to the area and located the vehicle underwater at approximately 7 am on Sunday.

Authorities recovered the deceased, and their bodies were transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta for autopsies to determine the cause and manner of death.

This incident remains under investigation.

Our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.

Two Women in 2013 Also Died in a Submerged Vehicle in Roque Bluffs, Maine

In 2013, two women died when their vehicle became submerged in Roque Bluffs.

Local authorities took Amy Stiner of Machias and Melissa Moyer of Pennsylvania, who was five months pregnant, to their vehicle after they got lost while hiking.

They called a short time later to say that they had driven their vehicle into the water, and then the phone went dead.

According to CBS News, the women had driven into the ocean after traveling the wrong way down a road.

They were found deceased in their submerged vehicle sometime later.

We'll update this story as more details become available.