JACKSON, Miss.—A third man in Mississippi has been discovered buried in a pauper’s cemetery without his relatives’ knowledge—and despite authorities knowing the identities of the deceased. It is the latest case in which families learned of their deceased love one’s death from news reports instead of from officials in Hinds County, Mississippi, according to civil […]
MEXICO CITY—Rescuers said Wednesday that a collapse and landslide at a garbage dump north of Mexico City was so massive that it buried a crane and its operator. The civil defense office in the Mexico City suburb of Naucalpan said the crane operator, and his crane, are still missing, after a hillside collapsed at the […]
Ghanaian soccer star Christian Atsu, who was in Turkey during the devastating earthquake that shook the region on Monday, has reportedly been found alive, but his whereabouts are unknown, his agent has said. Atsu, 31, was found buried under the rubble of a collapsed building in the southern Turkish province of Hatay. He had been […]
MORO, Ark.—The body of a 6-year-old boy was found buried under the floor of a house in eastern Arkansas and his mother and a man were arrested for his death, state police said Saturday. A police news release said the boy’s body was found Friday at the home in Moro, about 75 miles east of […]
ATHERTON, Calif.—Police are digging into why someone buried a car in the yard of a multi-million dollar Northern California home in the 1990s and left unused bags of concrete inside. The car was discovered Thursday morning by landscapers in the affluent town of Atherton in Silicon Valley, police said in a news release. Cadaver dogs […]
Crews plowing the snow-covered streets of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., discovered a woman trapped in a car completely buried under a massive mound of snow. The 48-year-old occupant of the vehicle was coping after spending between four and five hours trapped in the car on Feb. 17, according to city spokesman Chris Fiore, who spoke […]
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—Greed, debt, and a gambling problem drove a Southern California man to kill his business partner’s family with a sledgehammer and bury their bodies in the desert, prosecutors said on Jan. 7. But the defense said authorities are charging the wrong man and the real culprit is another business partner. Opening arguments were held […]
A 1-year-old girl was found alive, buried under rubble and dead bodies in Palu in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, after a devastating tsunami hit the city Sept. 28. More than 1,550 people were killed when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, sending a tsunami to Palu and nearby Donggala […]
An aged Jeep Wagoneer was pulled from underneath a Cape Cod sand dune on Friday, after it had sat buried there for roughly 40 years. John Musnuff, who is a member of the family that owns the Jeep, was on site for the removal of the Jeep. “This is our house, this is our family […]
