Condemned CA killer's map yields fruitless search
SAN ANDREAS, Calif.—A condemned killer's attempt to lead authorities to the body of one of his four victims in exchange for certain conditions has once again frustrated investigators and the victim's family following a fruitless search.A search crew spent last Thursday digging up a Calaveras County hillside where death row inmate Wesley Shermantine had told the newspaper he buried 16-year-old Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler in 1985, The Record of Stockton ( http://bit.ly/sugpoc ) reports.
Shermantine said he wanted his $18,000 in court-ordered restitution to be paid off for the information, The Record said. He offered to provide the location of a second body, belonging to a missing woman whose disappearance remains unsolved, if it was.
But after using cadaver dogs, picks, axes and a backhoe to search the spot under an oak tree where Shermantine, 45, had said Wheeler was buried—located on his parents' former property in San Andreas— county sheriff's deputies did not