Linden News

In this undated file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections, Wesley Shermantine is shown.

An aerial view of the location east of Linden where the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office was searching for remains Friday along Flood Road east of Escalon Bellota Road.

San Joaquin County sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia says specially trained dogs led searchers to a partial human skull and bones in Calaveras County around 11 a.m. Friday.

Authorities confirm a human skull has been found at a Calaveras County location where there is a search underway for other victims of San Joaquin County serial killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog.

Alice Kathryn Pursley died peacefully in the presence of her loving family at her home in Linden, California on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore speaks Monday afternoon at the Sheriff's Office in French Camp.

Frustrated by a lack of action from officials, Death Row inmate Wesley Shermantine today provided The Record information to what he says leads to where he buried murder victim Cyndi Vanderheiden of Clements.

He hung himself at his trailer on the grounds of the High Desert Prison near Susanville where he had been exiled in parole after serving 11 years in prison.

Parolee Loren Herzog of Linden apparently hanged himself Monday outside his state-issued trailer and left a suicide note to his family, Lassen County Sheriff Greg Growden said today.

Lela Jones Evans passed away on January 13, 2012 in Stockton, CA. She was born April 10, 1920 in Malad City, Idaho.

Icicles, some nearly two feet long, formed on the limbs of walnut trees being irrigated with sprinklers overnight in the Linden area.