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    Police digging up Mercedes buried at former mansion of Atherton mobster

    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...e-17524902.php

    Police are investigating why a car was filled with concrete bags and buried four to five feet deep in the yard of a $15 million Silicon Valley home.

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    Cadaver dogs were called to the scene. When the animals "made a slight notification of possible human remains," technicians with the San Mateo Crime Lab were contacted to help with excavating the vehicle, police said.

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    Police said that someone buried the car into the ground in the 1990s before the current homeowner lived there.
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    Johnny Bocktune Lew owned the mansion and the Mercedes in the '90s. He grew up in Hong Kong and was on the police force there before moving to the US in 1959. He was convicted of murder in 1966, two counts of attempted murder in 1977, and arrested again in 1999 for insurance fraud after hiring undercover agents to scuttle a yacht he said was owned by the Triad (article on that arrest: https://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/1..._06.fraud.html )


    Atherton is an ultra-rich Silicon valley town of 7,000 that is/was home to residents like Eric Schmidt, Meg Whitman, Elizabeth Holmes, Jerry Rice, Paul Allen, Stephen Curry, Sheryl Sandberg, Willie Mays, Charles Schwab, etc
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    No remains found inside, it was a convertible Mercedes reported stolen in 1992...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 0ddl0t View Post
    No remains found inside, it was a convertible Mercedes reported stolen in 1992...
    Damn! I thought they had finally found Jimmy Hoffa.

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