This happened here yesterday:
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/12013/1203297-511.stm
and this one in Prince William County, VA in December:
Around 1990 or so one of my crews saw an arm sticking up through the ice of the Raritan River in NJ, behind a crack house.
Growing up I had a neighboor who was an electrician. He had one really good client that own over 250 rent houses. When i was in high school he found a dead body in the front yard of one of the houses. He said you could see it from the street, but he was the first one to notifie police.... Here is the kicker,,, he said it was the second body he had found while working on this guys property.... He now has a hard time staying out of the liqur cabinet.
Hasn't happened around here in a few years, that I know of...
Rex was up near the top of a ramp with a TS and had sent a rodman down the slope with the rod. He said the kid came running up the slope faster than anybody he had ever seen.
Turned out to be an older fella that had gone "over the wall" at a local rest home a few months previous.
Published: September 17, 1986
Two land surveyors discovered human skeletal remains Tuesday afternoon in a heavily wooded swamp near the Oklahoma City Zoo .
The bones were discovered 100 feet north of Remington Place, formerly NE 50, and about 250 yards west of Interstate 35, on the future site of Remington Park racetrack.
Police and medical examiners have not determined the sex, cause of death or how long the bones had been there.
why use cadaver dogs? Just send out the surveyors...
There was a crew in Omaha, in the mid 70's, that found a badly decomposed female body in a storm drain manhole, while doing measure downs in the area. They waited until they were finished, before calling police. I guess they were on a roll and wanted to complete the work without a big distraction.
All crews should be so dedicated....;-)
Radar
Around 1970 or so, we did a week-long monitoring survey on some natural gas tanks from a street corner in Newburgh NY. It was winter time, so it was pretty cold down there by the river.
The day after we left, the January thaw hit, and the next day, someone found a body down a small embankment less than 50 feet from our primary control point. Police estimated it had been there at least a month.
1985, staking mining claims in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. I was a grunt, packing posts and pounding 'em in. Found a vagabond's camp. Down the trail a few hundred feet, found the late vagabond, lying in fetal position near his last Budweiser. Close to 90 years old, according to his driver's license.
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who's this person was, and why he had deer antlers.
Jack Handy
Don
In North Carolina one of the crews was hacking and crawling through some terribly thick stuff in a place that nobody would go unless absolutely necessary such as a surveyor. They found a skull and brought it out. Took it to the truck and got on the radio with the office when within range and told the boss what they had sitting in the truck with them. The boss blew the speakers out on the radio chewing their @$$ and had them go back to the site while he called the police. I think their plan was to put it on a shelf with cool stuff found while surveying. It turned out to be a little old lady who had wandered off the reservation several years earlier.
Don't forget Hub Northing who had a knack for, um, finding dead bodies.
Last decade, we had not one, but two serial murderers in the Baton Rouge area. I believe that more than one female victim's bodies were found by surveyors near Whiskey Bay river channel (Atchafalaya River) here in south Louisiana. It is a very desolate spot frequented mainly by fishermen and hydrographic surveyors.
I was walking Bailey last week, looked over, and there was a body in a sandy wash. I knew I couldn't just leave so I gingerly walked near and said, "Are you okay?" The body promptly sat up. She said she had been walking in the big wash, her legs got tired, and when she came to the little sandy wash she lay down to rest. It was such a nice warm day and it was so comfortable she fell asleep. I offered to walk her home but she said she was fine.
> I was walking Bailey last week, looked over, and there was a body in a sandy wash. I knew I couldn't just leave so I gingerly walked near and said, "Are you okay?" The body promptly sat up. She said she had been walking in the big wash, her legs got tired, and when she came to the little sandy wash she lay down to rest. It was such a nice warm day and it was so comfortable she fell asleep. I offered to walk her home but she said she was fine.
Good thing this was not summertime there...or she probably would have been dead!! Yikes!! :-O
