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

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The South is covered in abandoned vehicles on people's land.

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I used to deer hunt out of an abandoned 57 Chevy car in the woods. Seat was still intact and comfy

Damn I saw Paul Allen’s name and said to myself so this is where they buried the real Bill Gates.

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The remains are inside the concrete bags.

1. Chop body
2. Open bags
3. Put parts inside bags with loose concrete
4. Add moisture
5. Reseal bags

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I am in the middle of something and I don't have time to write any of this down, but stay near your phone. Imma call you later to go a little deeper on the particulars.

Now a name for the former owner:
LINK

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Johnny Bocktune Lew lived at the Stockbridge Avenue estate in the exclusive Atherton neighborhood from sometime in the 1990s — which is when police believe the vehicle was filled with unused concrete bags and buried 4 to 5 feet below the dir — through 2014, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Lew, who died in 2015, has a long criminal history and spent six years in prison for murder and attempted murder charges. His murder conviction was eventually overturned.

While studying at El Camino Junior College in Los Angeles County in 1964, Lew met fellow student Karen Gervasi. They began seeing one another, though Lew was still married to a cousin he tied the knot with three years earlier.

The next year, Gervasi died from a single gunshot wound at Lew’s apartment. He alleged she accidentally shot herself while he was showing her a gun he used at firing ranges. But he was convicted of her murder.

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It was not the only time Lew was accused of trying to end someone’s life.

Lew spent three years in prison after he was convicted on two counts of attempted murder charges in 1977.

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And, perhaps finally, it would be really convoluted to blame a previous owner:

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Lew’s daughter, Jacq Searle, 34, told the Chronicle she was shocked to learn about the car buried beneath the home she once lived in with her father, who she says he built the mansion.

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

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I heard the divorce story. The big hump in the yard is still there.

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Now a name for the former owner:

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I had a good run.

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how difficult it would have been to excavate that much soil without someone noticing.

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my first thoughts too - must be a big yard, well concealed

"KTVU has learned that the car in question is a Mercedes 560 SL with a personalized license plate linked to former homeowner Johnny Bocktune Lew, who moved to Washington state and has since died. Police believe the car was buried at about the same time it was reported stolen."

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at about the same time it was reported stolen."

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Which totally fits the dude's insurance fraud way of living that got him in trouble.

From what I linked above: he got himself arrested by hiring two men to take his boat out of SanFrancisco Bay into international waters and sink it there.
They reported it sunk.
BUT the two men he hired were both police and they had taken the boat to another harbor, and then collected what he owed them for the sinking, and then got himself arrested for insurance fraud.

Jimmy Hoffa FINALLY