The search is about to begin at the Inyo County ranch where convicted killer Charles Manson and his followers lived in scary isolation. Louis Sahagun has the details:

Spooky rumors have persisted for decades that there may be clandestine graves at a secluded ranch used as a hideout by the Charles Manson clan after a 1969 killing spree.

On Tuesday, Inyo County Sheriff's investigators and scientists packing portable ground-penetrating radar, magnetometers and shovels will convoy to the Barker Ranch on a mission to confirm or put to rest such speculation.

The search of the property, in the southern reaches of Death Valley National Park, got underway because a cadaver-sniffing dog showed signs that bodies could be buried on the site. Details in Louis' full story.

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