What lies beneath: digging for Manson victims on the Barker Ranch
The search is about to begin at the Inyo County ranch where convicted killer Charles Manson and his followers lived in scary isolation. Louis Sahagun has the details:
Spooky rumors have persisted for decades that there may be clandestine graves at a secluded ranch used as a hideout by the Charles Manson clan after a 1969 killing spree.
On Tuesday, Inyo County Sheriff's investigators and scientists packing portable ground-penetrating radar, magnetometers and shovels will convoy to the Barker Ranch on a mission to confirm or put to rest such speculation.
The search of the property, in the southern reaches of Death Valley National Park, got underway because a cadaver-sniffing dog showed signs that bodies could be buried on the site. Details in Louis' full story.
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