Mysterious car found buried in CA mansion’s yard. Now police search for human remains

Landscapers found a vehicle filled with bags of concrete buried underground in California’s Silicon Valley, police said.

Atherton police officers were called to a home in the 300 block of Stockbridge Avenue after landscapers working on a project uncovered the vehicle, according to a statement from the Atherton Police Department.

Investigators believe the car was buried sometime in the 1990s and was found four to five feet underground, officials said. Bags of unused concrete were scattered throughout the car.

Cadaver search dogs were called to the scene and gave “slight notification of possible human remains,” according to the statement. The San Mateo Crime Lab was called to help get the car out of the ground.

The owners of the $15 million property were unaware of the car, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The house was last bought in March 2020 and built in 1990, according to Zillow.

As of Thursday, no human remains have been found, police said.

The investigation is ongoing, officials said.

Atherton is about 30 miles southeast of San Francisco.

This story was originally published October 21, 2022 at 12:11 PM with the headline "Mysterious car found buried in CA mansion’s yard. Now police search for human remains."