Along a desolate stretch of California desert highway, next to a ramshackle home, law enforcement officials on Wednesday dug for a second day in a search for bodies.
Detectives working a homicide investigation discovered the remains of two people on Tuesday in a remote area of Lancaster, authorities said.
They resumed digging at a sprawling and decaying property, shifting the focus from a battered greenhouse that was the center of attention Tuesday to an area nearer a home. KTLA’s Sky 5 helicopter captured medical examiner investigators and L.A. County Sheriff’s personnel working beneath a tent on the property strewn with old cars and detritus.
Sheriff’s homicide investigators have yet to announce whether more bodies were found at the second location.
What began as a missing persons investigation turned into a homicide probe as investigators announced Tuesday they’d found two bodies at the Antelope Valley property near 50th Street East and East Avenue F. Sheriff’s cadaver dogs, deputies with shovels and a backhoe could be seen at work.
Sheriff’s Homicide Lt. Chris Oakley said the cause of the deaths would be determined by the medical examiner.
A source familiar with the investigation but not authorized to discuss it said detectives were pursuing several leads and that one led them to get a search warrant to begin digging at the property.
Detectives also searched a second property in the 43000 block of Blooming Park Street in Lancaster on Tuesday.
Several plastic storage bins were visible in the driveway, and a man was briefly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car before being released. Neither he nor anyone else was arrested.
