GUILTY WI - Milwaukee, 2 bodies in concrete, Aug'05 - Felipe Melendez-Rivas & Eugene Chaney

mysteriew said:

Usually reporters will make comment about missing people in the area. This time there is no guesses. Odd, maybe they weren't reported missing there?

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KatherineQ said:

gardenmom - beneath a concrete slab? I'd say that's about 100% chance someone got away with murder, literally, when the slab was poured. Sometimes I wish the media didn't report stuff like this, because that's a really excellent and nearly fool proof way to hide a murder - pour a concrete slab over the body.

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The purported muscle for a Milwaukee criminal organization known as the Body Snatchers was convicted Friday of four criminal counts, including an 8-year-old homicide, and now faces life in prison.

Donald Cooper was convicted of suffocating a dealer with a plastic bag and burying him under a concrete slab in 2000 and of kidnapping a different dealer and torturing him with hot chicken grease two years later, and dealing drugs he stole from the torture victim...

The Milwaukee police investigation into the Body Snatchers took on new urgency in 2005 when the remains of two men, Felipe Armando Melendez-Rivas and Eugene "Mickey" Chaney, were found under concrete slabs in the backyard of 4900 W. Fiebrantz Ave., a home once owned by Lock.

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The fall of Milwaukee crime boss Michael Lock began with a secret meeting at a south side hotel in 2005. Two bodies had been found in a backyard on W. Fiebrantz Ave. The victims were killed years earlier, when Lock owned the house. He immediately became the main suspect...

A jury deliberated for just 54 minutes before convicting Lock of two murders, kidnapping and drug dealing. He and Cooper both got life in prison. The convictions brought to an end a diverse criminal enterprise that hummed for a decade in Milwaukee.

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