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No human remains found in Linden well search

After five weeks of digging, crews have found debris, but no human remains during an excavation of an abandoned well in Central California in a search for possible victims of two men known as the "Speed Freak Killers," the FBI said. A team of FBI personnel and technical experts have ...

No remains recovered in ongoing 'Speed Freak Killers' excavation

Crews in Linden, Calif. were continuing to search for the remains of victims of the Speed Freak Killers Monday. Crews were digging by hand in an area one of the killers said was the wrong place. So far, no remains have been recovered, but workers have a long way to ...

Bone fragment found in well not from Hayward kidnapping victim

Bones discovered at a well in San Joaquin County last October were not those of Hayward kidnapping victim Michaela Garecht, police said Wednesday. Michaela Garecht was abducted on Nov. 19, 1988, at age 9 as she rode her scooter with a friend to the Rainbow Market on Mission Blvd in ...

SACRAMENTO: FBI takes the lead in 'Speed Freak Killers' investigation

The FBI announced Monday that it is taking the lead in 'Speed Freak Killers' investigation

FBI resumes search for 'Speed Freak Killers' victims

The FBI on Monday began the excavation of an abandoned well in Central California in a renewed search for possible victims of two men known as the "Speed Freak Killers." A team of the agency's forensic experts will be joined by local authorities, California State University, Chico anthropologists and other ...

Shermantine: Search Hayward area wells for Garecht's remains

24 years to the day since Michaela Garecht disappeared from in front of a Hayward convenience store, her family may be closer to closure because of a connection to the notorious Speed Freak Killers. KTVU reporter Rita Williams recently received a letter from Death Row written by surviving Speed Freak ...

SPEED FREAK KILLERS CASE: Hayward police news conference on new lead in Michaela Garecht case

Hayward police talk about possible link between 'the Speed Freak Killers' and missing teen Michaela Garecht.

'Speed Freak Killers' gravesite bone may belong to missing girl

The fate of a young Bay Area girl who was kidnapped in 1988 may soon be known when DNA test results come back on a small bone fragment found in a Linden well where the ‘Speed Freak Killers’ buried some of their victims, authorities said Thursday. Hayward police Sgt. Eric ...

FBI agents conduct site survey connected to 'Speed Freak Killers'

Armed with rakes and an excavator, FBI agents on Tuesday conducted a site survey of farmland near Linden in connection with the "Speed Freak Killers" investigation, authorities said. Tuesday’s site survey came months after a more intense search uncovered the remains of victims of the killers -- Wesley Shermantine and ...

Lawmaker urges use of death row inmate in search

A state lawmaker called on California's prisons chief to authorize the brief release of a death row inmate known as the "Speed Freak Killer" so he can lead searchers to missing people presumed to be victims. Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani sent a letter Thursday to prison department Secretary Matt Cate urging ...

Bill aids search for Speed Freak Killers' victims

A convicted serial killer could be temporarily freed from death row to help search for the remains of long-dead victims under a bill the state Senate approved Thursday. The measure is aimed at getting direct help from Wesley Shermantine, who is awaiting execution for four murders. Authorities say Shermantine and ...

LINDEN: Deputies return to area of buried Speed Freak Killer victims

Serial killer draws new map leading to other possible burial sites

Convicted killer Wesley Shermantine drew another map less than two weeks ago to more possible burial sites. Shermantine drew the map and marked numerous sites, indicating where bodies may be buried. One location is near a well, if the map is accurate, about 30 feet away from creek on an ...

LINDEN: Identities of two more victims of Speed Freak Killers revealed

Investigators have identified two more victims of the Speed Freak Killers after analyzing their remains.

Remains of two missing teens found in 'Speed Freak Killers' well

Two more possible victims of the "Speed Freak Killers" were identified Friday -- more than 25 years after the teens disappeared from their Stockton homes, authorities said. The disclosures bring to four the number of missing young women from the Central Valley whose remains have been found this year as ...

Shermantine claims there's a third killer in letter from death row

Death row inmate Wesley Shermantine recently sent two TV stations letters in which he claimed a third man was responsible for dozens of killings. In the letters, Shermantine discussed receiving a potential day pass from death row to lead authorities to burial sites. He also claimed a third man -- ...

Family makes sad journey to retrieve daughter's remains

The parents of a teenager who went missing 27 years ago returned to Northern California Wednesday to collect the remains of their daughter who was murdered at the hands of 'Speed Freak Killer' Wesley Shermantine. Almost three decades have passed since Paula Wheeler's last saw her daughter Chevy alive. On ...

Herzog claims he killed no one in 1999 interrogation tapes

While Wesley Shermantine has drawn maps showing where he says he and the late Loren Herzog dumped dozens of bodies of victims Shermantine maintains Herzog killed, interrogation tapes made by authorities in March 1999 show Herzog claiming it was Shermantine who did all the slaying. The two boyhood friends graduated ...