On May 30th, 1974, a phone in a police precinct in the small town of Ledyard, Connecticut,

rings off the hook.

An officer answers and asks who's calling, but the voice on the other end won't give a name.

Instead, they say that they have some information that the police might find interesting.

They said that in the backyard of an A-frame house on Shuvall Road, they'd find two bodies.

The officer perks up and starts asking more questions.

Whose bodies are they and who put them there?

But the caller isn't willing to give them that information.

Instead, they tell the officers that the murders happened four years prior,

and then the line goes dead.

So a few officers decide to go check out the scene.

Occasionally, they'd get prank phone calls from local teens about tips,

so they were skeptical, but they wanted to go look just in case. The A-frame in question was down

a two-lane road with thick woods on either side and houses peppered in between. And as the officers

pulled up, it appeared as if no one had lived there in quite some time.

No cars were in the driveway, no lights were on in the house, the grass was overgrown, and the house had signs of wear from the elements.

It gave the officers a bad feeling.

They started walking around the property,

seeing if there was any sign of the bodies when they came upon a big overgrown garden in the

backyard. Thick weeds and brush tangled into each other, but one officer could see through

the mess that there was dirt underneath

that had been dug out and then filled in again. The area was about the size of a body.

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