A car was buried in the backyard of a Northern California mansion 30 years ago as part of a scheme to commit insurance fraud, authorities said Thursday.
Forensic specialists didn t find any human remains in a mysterious car found buried in the backyard of an Atherton home, but they re analyzing it for DNA to see if the Mercedes convertible is connected to any other crimes, police said.
Investigators in the bizarre buried Mercedes-Benz case in Atherton have concluded the whole thing was a case of insurance fraud, and lo and behold, the car’s late owner Johnny Bocktune Lew collected a cool $87,000 after reporting the car stolen in 1992.