From WNYKYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week. I'm Bob Garfield.

What does it take for an American police story to pop up on the Australian Evening News?

Here's what.

Authorities in Texas have found as many as 30 bodies, including possibly those of children.

They're in a mass grave at the intersection

of two county roads in the southeast part of the state.

It was a grisly and disturbing scenario, triggering all of the revulsion and titillation

TV producers count on when true crime intrudes upon our mundane lives.

The only problem here was that this incident was actually untrue crime.

Yes, local, state, and federal law enforcement did converge on Hardin, Texas,

but they found no mass grave, no single grave, no dead children, no dead adults, nothing but the

temporary vacant home of a long-haul trucker and a convoy of satellite vans, including,

of course, CNN.

CNN has now confirmed that at least, at least 20 bodies have been found in a home.

Here's to be a mass grave containing, according to a sheriff's department official,

25 to 30 bodies, including we are told tonight the bodies of children.

And the Liberty County Sheriff's Office says 25 to 30 bodies discovered outside the home there.

Investigator said someone told them about the location.

They are not elaborating on where that information comes from just yet.

It would rapidly emerge that the whole wild corpse chase began with a phone tip to the Liberty County Sheriff's Department from a woman identifying herself as a psychic, a twist that within three

hours began to sober up the hysterical domestic news organizations. But not before the Texas

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