A search was conducted Friday at an undisclosed location in Calaveras County for the remains of Cyndi Vanderheiden, the Clements woman believed to have been killed more than 10 years ago by a pair dubbed the “Speed Freak Killers.”
The search was based on specific information in a letter received
Thursday by the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office from Scott Smith, A
Stockton Record news reporter, via e-mail, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s
spokesman Les Garcia said Friday in a press release.
The reporter indicated he received the letter from convicted serial
killer Wesley Shermantine, providing directions to Vanderheiden’s
remains, Garcia said.
Investigators searched the areas disclosed in the letter for several
hours with shovels and the aid of a cadaver dog with negative results,
Garcia said. No information was available about future searches, and
Garcia said no further details are being disclosed because of the
ongoing investigation. The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department has referred all requests for comment about the case to the San Joaquin Sheriff's Office.
Participating in the search Friday were investigators from the San
Joaquin County and Calaveras County sheriff’s offices and the
Department of Justice.
Shermantine, 45, formerly of Linden, earlier offered to lead
investigators to up to a dozen buried bodies believed to be victims in
a series of killings committed by him and former friend Loren Herzog,
who died Jan. 16, in what Lassen County investigators believe was a
suicide.
Herzog had been living in a trailer just beyond the walls of High Desert State Prison in Susanville after being paroled in 2010.
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