Police confirm car found buried Atherton home is a Mercedes that was reported stolen - SFGATE

Oct. 21, 2022Updated: Oct. 21, 2022 3:10 p.m.

The proprietor is apt dead, constabulary said, and the section is looking into DMV records for much information. 

At 11 a.m. today, the section called cadaver dogs backmost to the scene, wherever they "made a flimsy notification of imaginable quality remains," constabulary said. The dogs had made akin indications after the car was discovered by landscapers connected Thursday.

Excavation astatine the country is continuing connected Friday, and the section is expected to marque different announcement astatine 3 p.m.

No quality remains person been recovered astatine this point, the section said.

Oct. 21, 8:35 a.m. Police are investigating wherefore a car was filled with factual bags and buried 4 to 5 feet heavy successful the gait of a $15 cardinal Silicon Valley home.

Landscapers discovered the car erstwhile they were moving connected a occupation connected Thursday greeting astatine a location successful Atherton, a affluent enclave about 30 miles southbound of San Francisco, constabulary said.

The Atherton Police Department said successful a news release that it responded to the study astatine 8:50 a.m. successful the 300 artifact of Stockbridge Avenue.

Cadaver dogs were called to the scene. When the animals "made a flimsy notification of imaginable quality remains," technicians with the San Mateo Crime Lab were contacted to assistance with excavating the vehicle, constabulary said. 

The section had not confirmed whether a assemblage was discovered successful the car arsenic of Friday morning. 

Police said they suspected idiosyncratic buried the car into the crushed successful the 1990s earlier the existent homeowner lived there. Large bags of unused factual were stuffed into the car, they said.

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The Atherton Police Department said the probe is ongoing and the motive remains unknown. A spokesperson told SFGATE connected Friday greeting that determination are nary updates since the archetypal study was released Thursday afternoon.

Atherton, which has a colonisation of astir 7,000, is 1 of the wealthiest towns successful the U.S. with the mean location valued astatine $7.7 million, according to Zillow. The location wherever the car was discovered past sold for $15 cardinal successful March 2020, according to Redfin.