CA CA-Possible Human Remains Found in Buried Car at Silicon Valley Mansion

[SuziQ]

Police in Silicon Valley are working to unravel a potential murder mystery after a wealthy couple performing renovations on their yard unwittingly dug up a car filled with concrete that also may contain human remains.

Car filled with concrete found BURIED in $15m Silicon Valley mansion

Landscapers working at the $15million luxury home uncovered the car 5ft deep in the ground yesterday morning in Atherton in Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country.

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[loveisthemovement]

It takes a helluva a lot of resources to bury an entire car.

 

[MAHBOOBOO]

Link to an article that states the name of the person that owned the home in the 1990s, which is when detectives say they believe the car was buried.

Car Found Buried Underground At Silicon Valley Mansion, Investigated For Human Remains

A car buried underground decades ago was discovered on the property of a $15 million home in Silicon Valley, leading authorities to look into whether or not there were any human remains inside. During a landscaping expedition, workers found the car and law enforcement officials were notified...

www.dailywire.com

Link to a somewhat in-depth article about a yacht insurance fraud case the previous owner was charged in.

Agents Scuttle Plan to Sink Yacht for Profit / Two-time felon allegedly asked undercover cops

Hiring a couple of guys to sink a yacht worth $1.2 million in order to cash in on the...

www.sfgate.com

"JL told investigators that the yacht belonged to Asian crime bosses and that anyone who divulged the scheme would be killed, Edelen said. Investigators have not determined whether the Norwel belongs to the mob, but they didn't take any chances. "For officers' safety, we assumed it does," Edelen said."

He claimed that the yacht belonged to an Asian organized crime group called the "Triad," which authorized the sinking and fraudulent claim, authorities said. Mr. Lew also said that he or his people would kill or have killed anyone who told of the scheme,

Link to previous owner's 1968 murder conviction.

People v. Lew - 68 Cal.2d 774 - Tue, 06/25/1968 | California Supreme Court Resources

scocal.stanford.edu

 

[Tee7077]

Link to an article that states the name of the person that owned the home in the 1990s, which is when detectives say they believe the car was buried.

Car Found Buried Underground At Silicon Valley Mansion, Investigated For Human Remains

A car buried underground decades ago was discovered on the property of a $15 million home in Silicon Valley, leading authorities to look into whether or not there were any human remains inside. During a landscaping expedition, workers found the car and law enforcement officials were notified...

www.dailywire.com

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Link to a somewhat in-depth article about a yacht insurance fraud case the previous owner was charged in.

Agents Scuttle Plan to Sink Yacht for Profit / Two-time felon allegedly asked undercover cops

Hiring a couple of guys to sink a yacht worth $1.2 million in order to cash in on the...

www.sfgate.com

"JL told investigators that the yacht belonged to Asian crime bosses and that anyone who divulged the scheme would be killed, Edelen said. Investigators have not determined whether the Norwel belongs to the mob, but they didn't take any chances. "For officers' safety, we assumed it does," Edelen said."

He claimed that the yacht belonged to an Asian organized crime group called the "Triad," which authorized the sinking and fraudulent claim, authorities said. Mr. Lew also said that he or his people would kill or have killed anyone who told of the scheme,

Link to previous owner's 1968 murder conviction.

People v. Lew - 68 Cal.2d 774 - Tue, 06/25/1968 | California Supreme Court Resources

scocal.stanford.edu

Wow that's a heck of lot more information then the article I read in SF gate

 

[Eli9]

Wow that's a heck of lot more information then the article I read in SF gate

Even the daily mail didn't have those details as of this morning. JMO

 

[BrownRice]

Wow that's a heck of lot more information then the article I read in SF gate

For sure!

 

[worm]

While hoping no death is involved I’m guessing an insurance scam but why would somebody who can afford that kind of area need to do that? 50-100 grand tops?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Car reported stolen in 92 found buried at California mansion

ATHERTON, Calif. (AP) — Three decades after a car was reported stolen in Northern...

www.sfgate.com

 

[Tee7077]

Even the daily mail didn't have those details as of this morning. JMO

ABC world news tonight ran a piece with nothing too

 

[RickshawFan]

Car reported stolen in 92 found buried at California mansion

ATHERTON, Calif. (AP) — Three decades after a car was reported stolen in Northern...

www.sfgate.com

This is gonna be even juicier if the property owner stole—and buried—the car not knowing there was a dead body in it. Fun fun fun!

 

[Mimi in London]

It takes a helluva a lot of resources to bury an entire car.

Did Barry Morphew ever do any landscaping jobs in California?

 

[Laughing]

Wonder how long we will wait to know about any remains? Strange one, for sure.

And, while this is a mansion in Atherton, California, there is additional interesting material if one Googles 'Atherton mansion!'

Sometimes errant Google-fu brings you great stories.

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[margarita25]

13ish

 

[margarita25]

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Owner of car buried at Bay Area mansion had reported it stolen, collected $87,000 insurance payout

The Atherton home's former owner, who had a history of murder and insurance fraud cases, reported the Mercedes-Benz stolen in 1992, San Mateo County's district attorney said.

www.aol.com

 

[DI_Isokawa]

Dogs could have hit on bloodstains in the car. Better means of evidence disposal than driving it out in the desert and setting it on fire. Evidence disappears and you get your money back.

 

[iulia]

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-10-24/police-no-remains-in-car-buried-behind-california-mansion

Crews fully excavated a car that police said was buried in the backyard of a Northern California mansion 30 years ago and found no human remains, authorities said Monday.
[...]
The car was removed from the home by a tow truck and transported Saturday to the San Mateo County Crime Lab for further inspection and processing. On Sunday, ground penetrating radar was used to examine the scene, the department said.
“This examination did not reveal anything unusual or suspicious at the scene and no human remains were located," it said.
"This concluded our on-scene investigation,” the department added.

 

[Laughing]

Well.

More fun for us when the media reported that someone was in the car....

 

[iamshadow21]

Well.

More fun for us when the media reported that someone was in the car....

Still weird as heck. I still think that something happened with that car, even if it wasn't homicide. You want to commit insurance fraud, there are way, way easier ways to go about it that don't involve huge volumes of concrete and an excavator.