Linden News

Children laugh during a ventriloquist's June 2010 performance at the Fair Oaks Library.

Armando Soto scales a ladder to harvest cherries at Morada Produce in Linden, Calif.

Cherries at Morada Produce in Linden are ready to be picked, but there are fewer seasonal workers.

She sincerely believed in the power of education to create personal success and to shape good citizenry.

LINDEN, Calif. -- A Stockton family is hoping the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department and the FBI will continue searching and digging in Linden for more victims of the "Speed Freak Killers." Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said Wesley Shermantine provided a map and told him that Philip Martin is buried in an orchard off Fine and Flood roads.

Each is filled with old police reports and crime scene photos. Some lay open as if Johnson, poring over a page, spotted a clue that sent him deep into another binder.

From left, Jennifer Nelson-Burgher, Rocky Rhoades and Sherry Dumos rehearse a scene in "On Golden Pond." Performances begin Friday at the Stockton Civic Theater.

Crews from the San Joaquin County Sheriff's office and FBI are back in Linden searching for evidence connected to the Speed Freak Killers, according to sources.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office and Evidence Recovery Team from the Sacramento Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation excavated a site on a private property on Drais Rd.

Deputies shut down Drais Road in Linden on Tuesday, about 10 miles from where remains were found previously.