51 year old murder on Long Island might be solved...

[TreasonousBastard]

https://patch.com/new-york/riverhead/skeletal-remains-found-north-fork-basement-cops

Skeletal Remains Buried 7-Feet Deep Thought To Be Missing Mom
A jawbone was found first, followed by a full skeleton, police say. The body is believed to be a woman missing since 1966.

It starts with this married woman have a boyfriend, who is a married cop. Then, she disappears. Then, the cop becomes an ex-cop, and he disappears. Small towns being what they are, you can imagine the talking about all this, and the other cops do dig up the guy's basement, finding nothing.

Finally, the blighter's wife mumbles more about maybe they didn't dig deep enough, and they knock on the new owner's door with a story right out of a British mystery show-- and he lets them dig up his newly finished basement.

This time, they find, literally, a bag of bones. Can't charge the boyfriend, though, he died years ago.

[Princess Turandot]

1. Yikes:The blighter's wife lived there for several years knowing the body was buried under the house!

During interviews with Southold Police Det. Sgt. John Sinning and former Southold Detective Joseph Conway Jr., Judith Terry of Southold, the late Mr. Boken’s former wife, directed police to the basement of the home, where she said a body wrapped in burlap was buried soon after Ms. Pietrewicz’s family reported her missing. Mr. Boken died in 1982. Ms. Terry sold the home in the late 1970s.

I hope the cooperative current owners don't lose on their property value because of this little surprise.

But Jimmy Hoffa is still out there, since '75. (It's been several years since the last FBI digathon, so they're about due to muck up someone else's landscaping soon.)

[Laffy Kat]

2. A little of the subject, but this is reminded me..

My oldest son was a very early reader and he and devoured absolutely everything he could get his hands on: Reader's Digest, Time, newspapers, along with all the other stuff normal kids read. Anyway, one day out we were standing outside a pharmacy leaning against a wall, warming up in the sunshine before going back in to pick up a prescription. Next to the dumpster there was an old carpet rolled up right beside the trash to be picked up. My son went over to investigate it and I joked, "maybe there's a body rolled up in there" and he said, "Yeah, maybe it's Jimmy Hoffa." He was six, so this would have been in 1999! Blew my mind. After recovering from my laughter, I ask him how he had heard about Jimmy Hoffa, he just shrugged and said he'd read about it somewhere.