Putnam County officials spend Friday searching the property where Crystal Sheffield lives with her mother. Channel 4 confirmed that investigators are digging on the property, cadaver dogs are on site and a pond is being searched by diver.
Investigators said they learned in interviews with the Sheffield and Griffis families that some horses were buried on their 30-acre property a couple of months ago. Investigators said at midday they had already uncovered one dead horse. They were also going to search nearby property and a pond belonging to another family member.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=140562&catid=3Search teams have finished a thorough search of Haleigh Cummings' grandmother's property, and are now searching another relative's property nearby.
The first search, on 30 acres belonging to Marie Griffis, turned up animal remains, as expected, but nothing else.
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After completing the search on Griffis' land, the searchers moved over to another relative's property, a 25-acre tract.
I'm interested in who the other family member is too.Do you then think she was late arriving because she buried the body with horses first?
http://www.news4jax.com/news/19869545/detail.html
Any idea who the "another family member" is ? Would a cadaver dog alert to a dead horse?
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=140562&catid=3
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/m...2&provider=top
more info at this link, it looks like the initial search area might be complete, officials now moving on to another relatives property.
ETA....link now doesn't work.....weird
Donjeta I might be a southern girl but I find myself wondering what might be off kilter for an animal to be buried on the property. Does anyone reading here have a farm or...have insight as to what happens with large farm animals when they die? Do you bury them on the farm or does someone come and take them away? Don't laugh I am having a airhead moment.
I'm glad they are doing this.But I strongly think if they can do this and check thier farm then they need to recheck around RC's trailer,pond ect... and further each way than they checked before and places that were not checked.Just curious where was the gun found?under who's house?deck?they should check around there too.http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/mostpopular/news-article.aspx?storyid=140562&provider=top
New article, this link should work, I apologize for the earlier post.....I am still learning!
In Florida, it depends on what county you live in whether or not its illegal to bury horses (or other large livestock). It has to do with water tables, etc. We had to send a horse for cremation because in Sumter Co. it is illegal to bury.
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The first search, on 30 acres belonging to Marie Griffis, turned up animal remains, as expected, but nothing else. Griffis' property was checked already, but it was during the first week of the investigation, and it wasn't a very thorough search at that time, according to investigators.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/mostpopular/news-article.aspx?storyid=140562&provider=top
FOX 35 has a news crew headed to Satsuma and will have LIVE reports on FOX 35 News. http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/cummings_case/062609haleigh_farm_search
If you go to the link and read the article you will get plenty of info....
I've always been more suspicious of bio-mom then RC so none of this is a suprise to me!
Donjeta I might be a southern girl but I find myself wondering what might be off kilter for an animal to be buried on the property. Does anyone reading here have a farm or...have insight as to what happens with large farm animals when they die? Do you bury them on the farm or does someone come and take them away? Don't laugh I am having a airhead moment.
7 hrs
1 1/2 hrs can be allowed for drive time.
4 1/2 hrs is in question.
The 1 1/2 hrs drive time would of been feasiable if she had left within 30 min of finding out.
I would of left immediatly, but, that is me.
There is more to this "tip" than they are saying, imo. They would not converge in force on the property and bring in divers without a substantial lead. If it were only the horses or animal carcasses they were interested in...there would be a handful of people on scene and not bulldozers, divers, and 40 officers! No way would they put this kind of manpower out there without having some very serious information on Haleigh.
My quess it was a neighbor or someone who knows the Griffis. IMO I find it very hard to believe that Ronald or the Cummings would know about the animals being barried. But personally I think they should check everything because in this day and age you just never know better safe then sorry.
Authorities learned about the remains in an interview with local family members and began a search for them with the help of cadaver dogs and private search and rescue teams.
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"The property owners said there were buried animals on the property so we need to turn over every stone to verify that's what it is," he said. "There's no reason to believe it's not an animal."
Cadaver dogs, depending on their degree of training, will not alert to animal decomposition. They can tell the difference. I pray the animals they are using for this search are specifically trained on human decomp.SS....could you tell me if cadaver dogs would hit on animal carcasses? I know you have followed many many cases and I just wondered if you ever heard if the dogs would hit or if they could tell the difference in the decomposition? I know any info you provide will be your opinion....