LEONIDAS TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB)- Investigators from the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI have discovered a large underground structure in an open field in Leonidas Township.
Officials believe the container, which is comparable in size to a semi-trailer, may hold critical evidence linked to the 2018 disappearance of Brittany Shank.
Law enforcement personnel deployed heavy machinery, including an excavator, to carefully unearth the buried object before utilizing saws to gain entry.
St. Joseph County Chief Deputy Zach Zuk says that while the team is working cautiously to avoid damaging any internal contents, they are not ruling out any possibilities regarding what might be discovered inside.
The latest developments follows a fresh investigative lead in the nearly eight-year-old missing person case.
Shank, a mother of four from Sturgis, vanished at the age of 23 on November 30, 2018, shortly after abandoning a crashed vehicle on Fawn River Road, Zuk says they won’t let any stone go unturned during the investigation
Zuk says that the excavation is an ongoing effort to thoroughly vet tips and rule out possibilities, and they have not officially confirmed any definitive breakthroughs or the presence of a body.
More than a dozen members of the FBI Detroit Field Office’s Evidence Response Team will be back on-site to assist St Joseph County investigators this morning as the slow, precise search continues into the week.
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