Police discover fresh concrete in search for bodies

INDIANAPOLIS -- Investigators using dogs and special radar equipment discovered what they described as a "mass" under concrete in the basement of a home where they were searching for three family members that a brother and sister told police they killed.\nIndianapolis police Lt. Paul Ciesielski said late Tuesday that authorities had not yet determined whether the mass was the human remains of the mother and grandparents of Kenneth Allen Jr., 29, and his sister, Kari Allen, 18, of Noblesville.\nThe two were arrested Tuesday after being stopped by St. Charles, Mo., sheriff's deputies for speeding, police said.\nWhen officers approached the car, they discovered bloody clothes, sheets and pillow cases, as well as jewelry, cash, credit cards and the driver's licenses of two older people in Indiana, said St. Charles County Sheriff's Lt. Craig McGuire. They were charged with receiving stolen property and were being held without bond at the county jail.\nUpon questioning, Kari Allen volunteered that she and her brother had killed their mother and grandparents, dismembered them and buried them under a basement floor in their grandparents' home, McGuire said. Kenneth Allen also later admitted involvement, he said.\nPolice did not release the names of the three family members, but neighbors identified the grandparents as Lee and Betty Bradley.\nCiesielski said authorities planned to dig up an area of the basement's concrete, which has yet to harden. If the digging yields what could possibly be human remains, an anthropology team from the University of Indianapolis would begin carefully sifting through it, looking for evidence, he said.\nNeighbors said they had recently heard a jackhammer inside the home and had seen two people they thought were their neighbors' grandchildren carrying bags of concrete into the house a few days ago. Ciesielski said authorities believed the people were killed in early January.\nAfter the siblings were arrested, Missouri police notified Indianapolis police, who went to a house on the city's east side. They found concrete on the basement floor that had yet to harden, Ciesielski said.\nCiesielski said the concrete was spread out over a five foot-by-five foot square and was six to eight inches high off the basement floor. No blood or obvious signs of a struggle were found inside the house, which was strewn with stacks of clothes and newspapers, he said.\n"Everything we've learned from our colleagues in St. Louis has been accurate, so we have no reason to believe there's not bodies in there," Ciesielski said. "We're going on the premise there are"