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Deputies have a grave, suspect, but no victim
Saturday, January 19, 2008 | No comments posted.
HILLSBORO (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies say they had no problem figuring out the purpose of the hole in the ground 6 feet long, 2 to 3 feet wide and 3 feet deep.
What they don’t understand is for whom the grave was intended.
For the moment, they’re holding 63-year-old Ronald Karel on charges of trespassing and criminal mischief. But they’ve asked for a high bail, $20,000, because of their worries.
They say that to their knowledge nobody who knows Karel is dead or missing.
But they’re concerned about the hole in the ground in a remote part of Washington County that they say can’t be anything other than a grave.
Deputies said Karel told them he dug it to look for ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens more than 27 years ago.
But the authorities aren’t buying it.
What they don’t understand is for whom the grave was intended.
For the moment, they’re holding 63-year-old Ronald Karel on charges of trespassing and criminal mischief. But they’ve asked for a high bail, $20,000, because of their worries.
They say that to their knowledge nobody who knows Karel is dead or missing.
But they’re concerned about the hole in the ground in a remote part of Washington County that they say can’t be anything other than a grave.
Deputies said Karel told them he dug it to look for ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens more than 27 years ago.
But the authorities aren’t buying it.
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