A High-Tech Search for a Missing Navy Wife

摘要

The plywood, only a bit of it bxposed, looks suspicious. Who would have wedged the 5-foot-by-2-foot sheet here, between the roots of a giant evergreen on an island north of Seattle, and covered it with dirt? Is it meant to keep a clandestine grave from collapsing? One way to see if a body lies beneath the rain-forest floor is to rip away the plywood and excavate. But that could damage a skeleton—and destroy telltale evidence of who buried it there. Ron LaBarca has a better way. Pushing his $65,000 radar machine across terrain that only coyotes appreciate, LaBarca peers into a computer screen alive with color.