25-30 Bodies just discovered in a mass grave in East Texas

[LuckyKBoxer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43317379/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001

dismembered either most or all are children.

absolutely horrifying.
the story is breaking now.

 

[Scott T]

Jesus Christ!

What kind of sub-human scum could do something like this?

 

[Sukerkin]

Oh my.

Sometimes news comes along that is seriously disturbing, even acculturated to violence as we have become due to the media.

Truly shocking.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Based on reports so far they have not searched the property yet. I think we should let it all play out first!

 

[Big Don]

http://www.click2houston.com/news/28161379/detail.html
LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas -- Liberty County officials said Tuesday evening they plan to search for bodies, but so far have no evidence of "deceased persons" despite earlier reports of dozens of bodies in a rural area.

The Liberty County Sheriff's Office initially said 25 to 30 bodies were at a home at the intersection of County Roads 2049 and 2048 between Hardin and Daisetta.Investigators said someone told them about the location, but they did not elaborate.The officials later said at a news conference that they have "no evidence of deceased persons," but they are waiting for a search warrant to gather evidence.

 

[Carol]

Live video feed via helicopter:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8176278

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Latest is, false alarm.

 

[Carol]

Some news reports were saying the tip was from a "psychic" ...

 

[Archangel M]

Now THATS embarrassing.

 

[MA-Caver]

Latest is, false alarm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_texas_search_bodies

Wonder if the so called psychic is going to pay for the wasted man hours of all those LEO's for nothing... sheesh. If they sent a couple of officers there on a preliminary check maybe that'd be alright then they can call out the calvary and have the whole gang on over.
Believing a psychic, oh brother.

 

[Archangel M]

Well...she probably didn't call saying that she had a psychic "vision". She probably called 911 saying she "had information" on a mass grave.

 

[Sensei Payne]

some news reports were saying the tip was from a "psychic" ...

fail!

 

[Sukerkin]

"Fail" indeed! A happy turn of events in a way as there is no mass grave of dismembered children but someone is in a spot of bother for all that wasted police time I fear.

 

[Sensei Payne]

Now I have heard of mass graves found via Infrared satellite before...why don't they scan the area that way, just to be sure? Then again...I don't fully believe in psychics but I believe in Human intuition, visions, and Divine intervention...

With all the drug Cartels and the Gang violence...I wouldn't doubt that there are mass graves out there...

but in reality this person should have gotten "Hard" proof before staging a full blown search

 

[Nomad]

 

[LuckyKBoxer]

This is so bizarre..
I remember sitting and seeing the breaking news story alert and then reading the story saying they had "FOUND" the site and the bodies and that they were dismembered and all kids..
I wonder what happens to the person who reported that, and anyone involved with the decision to run with it and put it out there as "fact"
I wonder if people got fired over this... didn't Dan Rather get a famous firing for his untrue "facts"?

 

[Carol]

This is so bizarre..
I remember sitting and seeing the breaking news story alert and then reading the story saying they had "FOUND" the site and the bodies and that they were dismembered and all kids..
I wonder what happens to the person who reported that, and anyone involved with the decision to run with it and put it out there as "fact"
I wonder if people got fired over this... didn't Dan Rather get a famous firing for his untrue "facts"?

Usually not in the case of a hot, breaking story. If it bleeds, it leads. News organizations will often have 2-3 canned responses to a story (affirmation, negation, no change) so they can be the most firstest with the most latest....and in the age where Google News means news info can go viral, you have the scenario where (agency A) is reporting (X) because (agency B) is reporting (X).

 

[Big Don]

This just in! Media confirmssychics Still Not Real!

 

[granfire]

This is so bizarre..
I remember sitting and seeing the breaking news story alert and then reading the story saying they had "FOUND" the site and the bodies and that they were dismembered and all kids..
I wonder what happens to the person who reported that, and anyone involved with the decision to run with it and put it out there as "fact"
I wonder if people got fired over this... didn't Dan Rather get a famous firing for his untrue "facts"?

Yeah, but he was famous...

 

[Carol]

Even not famous journalists have been fired for fabricating stories.

This story wasn't a fabrication...it was more a matter of data being either misinterpreted and/or stretched. The "psychic" said as many as 30 people were buried on the property...and seems to have knowledge of details of the property. LEOs do a quick search and find nothing. The "psychic" tells LEOs they have the wrong house. The LEOs find bloodstains on the porch that's confirmed to be human and a horrible odor coming from the back of the house. LEOs want a warrant (with good reason), and this is probably where the story gets stretched to "bodies found."

There may be some journalists that lose their job over this considering how viral this story has been....and how embarrassing the aftermath was. Either that or they may have been moved closer to the top of the layoff line...