SINKHOLE OR BURIAL SITE? BIG HOLE IN DESERT WEST OF TUCSON
On Thursday, April 9th 2020, a passing driver recognized something was wrong with the desert landscape on his way to work. “It loomed, except, you know, it was a hole in the ground. But it had that feeling.”
The 32-year-old veterinary technician, who asked us not to print his name for legal reasons, stopped his vehicle on the side of the highway to look at the hole. What he found was unsettling.
“There was just this big wooden box down there with chains around it, but not like ‘holding it closed’ around it, just sort of in a circle. The box was half flopped open, splinters like someone had kicked the shit out of it, totally empty. And there were some wicked big boot prints. Serious stompers.”
While there have been many well-publicized disappearances and claims of being followed or stalked on this stretch of State Route 86, this is the first evidence to date of criminal activity beyond the norm for the area.
Police are currently treating this as a missing persons case. There are no further details at this time. If you have any knowledge regarding this sinkhole, or anywhere a veterinary technician can offload a few dozen pounds of ketamine, please contact the Tucson Police Department.
