I also came across this case (its important to point out, IMO, that Ive read several articles on the case, and none of them specify the type of septic system involved: Aerobic or conventional):
Skeletal remains discovered in a southern Texas septic tank have been identified as a woman
reported missing more than a decade ago, reports CBS affiliate KGBT.
Leona Marie Tollett Johnson was 21 when she vanished in 2004. The remains, which were found on July 26 in a tank in Weslaco, were positively identified as Johnson through DNA, according to the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office.
KRGV reports a murder warrant has been issued for 40-year-old Aristeo Cervantes Jr., the owner of the home where the remains were found.
Cervantes' daughter and her boyfriend reportedly found a woman's boot in the tank near the home and called authorities, who discovered bones.
Cervantes is already serving a 12-year sentence in state prison for stabbing his wife in 2015, the station reports.
Investigators say he has admitted that he stabbed a woman after a dispute in 2004 and hid her remains in the septic tank, but said he didn't know her.
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Investigators say Johnson's cause of death is consistent with Cervantes' confession. (BBM)
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sk...eptic-tank-idd-as-woman-who-vanished-in-2004/
Human remains that turned up in July when a septic tank was being serviced at a south Texas home have unraveled a murder mystery one that went unsolved for more than a decade.
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[Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie] Guerra told KRGV that Johnson was known to run away from home often when she was a teenager. But the last time she ran away, Guerra said, her family could tell that it wasnt the same as when shed run away before.
But investigators said they werent sure who had done it until they received a call on July 26 reporting something odd
human remains lodged in a septic tank.
Authorities went to the residence near Edcouch, Texas, and
heard about how the couple who lived there had been having problems with their septic tank. When they tried to fix it, they discovered a boot inside the tank. And inside the boot was a large bone, according to KGBT.
The woman who lived at the home was the daughter of Aristeo Garcia Cervantes, 40, who authorities quickly interrogated, and ultimately confessed to killing Johnson more than a decade ago and hiding her remains in his septic tank.
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He confessed to killing Johnson whose name he did not remember after luring her into his car with the promise of drugs, according to CBS News. Cervantes then stabbed her to death.
Guerra told KRGV that Cervantes could have gotten away with murder, but that putting the remains in his septic tank always risked them being found.
You know eventually septic tanks have to be serviced, Guerra said. Things do have to be serviced, so I'm sure that he had that in the back of his mind, all this time, that it's just a matter of when that tank was going to get serviced that he would be discovered. But if they had abandoned the house he could have easily gotten away with murder.
http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article175823211.html
I was wondering why poor Ms. Johnson wasnt found sooner, but then realized until he was sent to prison, Cervantes could have been cleaning the system himself, having friend (whom he might have scared into not telling anyone) or adding extra chemicals, etc.
I wonder if the buyer(s) of BCs house has any idea what kind of mess they may be walking into.
