The officials said at a news conference that they have "no evidence of deceased persons," but they are waiting for a search warrant to gather evidence.
Stevo
Originally posted by SSMAN
...Welcome to the land of "Fuck it". No body cares, and if they do, no body cares.
Probably because of the amount of mass graves that have been found in Mexico in recent years.
Stevo
I dont want to say the cartel isnt that dumb....but honestly, I dont think that is something they would do. The very last thing they want/need is the US to be involved in shutting them down in Mexico. Look at what happened when the US agent got killed in Mexico...the cartel killed the two guys that were responsible and left them out so everyone could know that the people responsible were dead. They dont want the US anywhere near them.
Liberty County sheriff's officials Tuesday afternoon said they found blood at a rural residence that a tipster said was the burial site of 25 to 30 dismembered bodies.
A state law enforcement source later Tuesday afternoon told the Houston Chronicle that deputies had been directed to the site by a psychic.
"All we know is the sheriff department received a call about a mass grave, or something like that, with several bodies," the source said. "They went and checked it, and there was nothing there. The caller went back and said, 'No, you went to the wrong house.'
"They go back out and go to the house and see something dark that could have been blood, and do a presumptive test that it was human blood."
A neighbor said authorities were congregating at the home of Joe Bankson.
Bankson, reached in Dallas where he was travelling with his wife, told the Chronicle he did not know why police might be at his home.
Bankson and his wife are long-haul truckers who said they were en route to Georgia. They left Sunday, he said.
They have lived at the residence for three years, he said.
"I haven't killed anybody," he said. "And I have a lot of friends, but I haven't helped anybody bury any bodies."
He told KHOU-TV that blood on the porch and in the house was the result of a suicide attempt a few weeks ago by his daughter's boyfriend.
"He got drunk and cut his wrist," Bankston told the TV station. The boyfriend, an Army soldier who was AWOL, is now in a military psychiatric ward in Killeen, according to Bankston. He said a police report was filed with the sheriff's department after the suicide attempt.
Bankston also told KHOU that his son is a convicted sex offender, but said he hasn't lived in Hardin for over a year.
Shortly before 6 p.m., Liberty County sheriff's spokesman Rex Evans said officers had not exhumed any bodies.
"At this time we have not recovered any bodies," he said. "We only received information of a possible crime scene here at this location. Upon our arrival we determined that there was a need for a search warrant. Once that warrant arrives at the scene we will further our investigation."
The Cleveland Advocate reported the house is near the intersection of County Roads 2048 and 2049.
The Cleveland newspaper said authorities were told that as many as 30 bodies, possibly belonging to children, were buried at the intersection of the roads between Hull and Hardin.
A cadaver dog has been brought to the scene to aid in the search.
The newspaper quoted authorities as saying residents of the nearby residence — the object of the search warrant — were “uncooperative.”
The Beaumont FBI office has been asked to assist in the investigation.
Men have become the tools of their tools. -Henry David Thoreau
How could anyone harm innocent children. I hope those children didnt have to go through alot of pain. Whoever did it will have to answer for it one day.
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Seb's high class.
He'll mow your grass.
He'll kick your ass.
And while his kidney stones pass,
He'll piss in a glass!
Going to war with the Cartels would be even worse than going to war with the Al Qaudea because that puts the battlefield much closer to home. And puts us on the front line here in Texas.
What are you talking about. America is full of nothing but a bunch of spinless pussies up in office.
GOD BLESS TEXAS August Landscaping 214-779-7278
Seb's high class.
He'll mow your grass.
He'll kick your ass.
And while his kidney stones pass,
He'll piss in a glass!
Going to war with the Cartels would be even worse than going to war with the Al Qaudea because that puts the battlefield much closer to home. And puts us on the front line here in Texas.
We've been at war with the cartels and it spills over our border constantly. Every day there is another shootout between them and the Mexican army and the drug runners will flee into the US.
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