Erased dmg still in spotlight

A while back I had two disk images on my desktop which I used for secure storage of confidential documents. When I no longer needed them I deleted both.
Yesterday, while using spotlight, I discovered that both were still in existence but the path had changed from:
/Users/my name/Desktop/disk image name.dmg
to just
/Desktop/disk image name.dmg
Despite that, there were no desktop icons. In fact I was only able to find them in spotlight.
I found that I was able to open both disc images by clicking on the dmg icon in spotlight and then inputting the appropriate password (lucky that I remembered them).
They still contained the confidential documents that I thought I had destroyed.
Using Disk Utility I highlighted one of the disc images and hit the erase button. When that was finished I looked again in spotlight and it was still there. I clicked on the disk image in spotlight, input the password and found that the name of the desktop icon had changed from the original name (which still showed in Spotlight) to “Untitled,” but that it was now empty.
So I have apparently succeeded in deleting my confidential documents but cannot remove the disk images from Spotlight. Can anyone advise me how to do that?

Hi Mike,
Sounds like a few things.
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Use that to find them and Trash them from.
Then you need Spotlight to reindex your drive, try Spotlight's Security tab to add that drive, wait, then remove that drive.

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