New Speed Freak Killers' Dig Sites Remain Untouched In Linden
LINDEN (CBS13) - Local bounty hunter Leonard Padilla showed up at the dig site in Linden where more victims of the Speed Freak Killers are thought to have been dumped, but didn't dig as he said he might. Instead, he talked about where more of the victims could be located.
Padilla and his team say they have a good idea where two mass graves used by the Speed Freak Killers are located in Linden.
Padilla and his private investigator, Rob Dick, say they have new information about the pair of other wells that convicted killer Wesley Shermantine says contain murder victims.
"He says this is just the tip of the iceberg, and you need to check both of theses wells," said Dick.
The team says Shermantine tells them the so-called "bone yard" is about 100 yards from a mobile home that sits just east of the first dig site at a well.
The pair says that's the well where investigators will find at least a dozen bodies.
The third site, Dick says, is near a TV tower, about 300 feet from a pond.
Shermantine told Dick a single victim is buried in a well there. The details came during a phone conversation about getting paid for handing over information that led authorities to a pair of bodies in Calaveras County.
After seeing coverage of the dig on TV, Shermantine told Padilla the well that yielded 1,000 bone pieces, skull fragments, clothes and jewelry is not the well he was referring to in his hand-drawn map.
"And I told him they found a skull. He says: Well, nothing we had anything to do with. I didn't have anything to do with it for sure, and I don't think Loren did either," said Padilla.
Even though last week San Joaquin County investigators publically asked Padilla for additional information, the team has not handed over the new details because they say investigators have the information.
Padilla urges San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore to bring in FBI teams to join the search.
"His pride is standing in the way of these folks getting results, and getting them today instead of tomorrow or down the road," said Padilla.
Investigators haven't said if they plan on searching additional sites.
