TALLULAH, La. (AP) — The bodies of two men and a woman who had been missing since Jan. 7 were found Wednesday in a car pulled out of the Tensas River in northeastern Louisiana, state police said.

Eddie Cobb Jr., 68, and Ella Williams, 52, both of Beaumont, Texas, and Cobb’s nephew Brady Brown, 49, of Columbia, S.C., apparently drowned after their 2006 Dodge Stratus ran off the road, said Lt. Julie Lewis, a state police spokeswoman.

The vehicle apparently went down the Interstate 20 median for about a quarter-mile before going into the river near a bridge, she said.

An autopsy on Cobb, who had been driving, was incomplete, she said. Cobb may have had a medical condition, she said.

Lewis said weather is not suspected as a factor because an electric window was down.

Earlier reports had said all three were from Shreveport, 150 miles west of Tallulah.

Williams and Cobb were taking Brown to Shreveport, where he was going to pick up a vehicle and drive back to South Carolina, Lewis said.

All had attended a funeral in Columbia. A cellphone call from Birmingham, Ala., on Jan. 7 was the last anyone had heard from them.

After more than a week, Columbia police asked authorities across the Southeast to help in the search.

Lewis said a police spotter flying over I-20 to look for the car saw a bumper floating in the river Tuesday.

State wildlife agents began dragging the river but had to stop at nightfall. A dive team from Ouachita Parish found the vehicle upside-down in the water and pulled it from the river Wednesday morning, Lewis said.