re: Landscapers find concrete-filled car buried for decades in yard of Silicon Valley mansion

If I ever killed someone and buried them in my own yard there's no way I'm ever selling that house

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Go explain that to skeeter pouring your slab

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fair enough

I going to guess that they thought over time the bags would absorb enough moisture/runoff/etc. to eventually turn to concrete.

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Acidic as in it will burn you

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So will something that's caustic.

Matter of fact, cement smells like sodium hydroxide. Because, well, it's caustic.

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So this body has been buried since the 90’s yet it is giving off smells human remains? I don’t know if I buy that. After 30 plus years their wouldn’t be anything but bones left.

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Unless as a previous poster noted, the body parts are in the concrete which would seal in the organic matter preventing air and water from getting to it and decaying it. Perhaps the person actually fricked themselves with the method they thought would cover them.

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Reminds me of that house on Sherwood Forest with the VW Beetle buried in the front yard.


We were always told it was a Cadillac.

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I'm trying to remember the story. I've heard two versions:

1. The dad got mad at the daughter's bad driving, so he buried the car.

2. The husband buried the car rather that give it to his ex-wife during a divorce.

There is some more info about the previous owners from a SF Chronicle article behind a paywall: Atherton buried car: Home’s former owner has colorful history of arrests for murder, more

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In 1999, the former owner of the property at 351 Stockbridge Ave, Johnny Bocktune Lew, was accused of trying to hire people to sink a yacht worth $1.2 million in order to cash in on the insurance. The men he hired were undercover police in a sting operation, authorities said.

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Article not behind paywall: Peninsula Buried Car Property's Ex-Owner Had Criminal Past: Report

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Johnny Bocktune Lew, who owned the 351 Stockbridge Ave. property in the 1990s, had a lengthy criminal history that included a 1977 conviction on two counts of attempted murder and a murder conviction in the 1960s that was later overturned, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

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Johnny Bocktune Lew, who owned the 351 Stockbridge Ave. property in the 1990s, had a lengthy criminal history that included a 1977 conviction on two counts of attempted murder and a murder conviction in the 1960s that was later overturned, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

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Damn, now it’s getting juicy.

Even if there’s not a body in the car, it’s possible that the car was buried to get rid of evidence.. which might explain why the cadaver dogs apparently gave a faint response. The concrete part is a bit puzzling. But maybe the guy had heard mob stories about bodies in cement and thought Quikrete from Home Depot would do the same thing. It would have been harder to look shite like that up in the 90’s, when the internet was still newish.

Sounds like the guy had a history of insurance fraud as well so there’s also that possible angle. But it seems like there have to be better ways to collect an insurance check than burying a car in your yard.

The smell would be gone

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The smell would be gone

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Are you a cadaver dog? What qualifies you to make such a statement?