Human Remains Reportedly Found After Neighbor Arrested For Murder Of Missing Nudist Couple
Human remains were reportedly found after a neighbor was arrested for the murder of the missing nudist couple. However, it hasn’t been verified that the remains are the couple.
We’ve been following this story on Dave & Chuck The Freak since it broke–since even before it broke! We were tipped off about the story and might have even cracked the case before authorities did. It’s a crazy story involving a missing nudist couple in California (and their dog Cuddles). Were they murdered by a neighbor in their nudist community?
Do The Remains Belong To The Missing Nudist Couple?
After first believing the nudist couple was missing, police now believe the couple is dead but will continue to search beneath the suspect’s house for more evidence, per ABC News. 62-year-old Michael Sparks has been arrested by Redlands Police Department in connection with the disappearance of 79-year-old Dan Menard and 73-year-old Stephanie Menard from Olive Dell Ranch, according to ABC News.
Reports say Sparks was arrested for murder and was booked into the West Valley Detention Center. It sounds like police had reason to believe that their bodies were on his property and started a search. Eventually, a cadaver dog reportedly found at least one body on the property. According to ABC News, a concrete space was found under the house that’s roughly 5 feet deep and stretches to the back of the property. Bags of evidence were removed from said space that police confirmed did, indeed, contain human remains. Now, is it the Menards? That is yet to be determined but they are the couple that led police to the home in the first place, and police had reason to search the area while looking for them. It hasn’t been confirmed but it seems very likely that it is them.
It sounds like getting to Sparks to arrest him was no easy task. According to ABC News, they had to used armored vehicles to take apart the front of the house since they couldn’t contact him and sounds like he wasn’t cooperating with law enforcement. Carl Baker, a public information officer with the Redland Police Department (the ABC News article says he’s a “pubic information officer” but I’m thinking that’s a typo?) says, “We had reason to believe the suspect was barricaded and armed and we wanted to protect the safety of our officers, that’s why the front of the house was removed. In fact, the suspect was barricaded and he was armed with a rifle.”
You can see his mugshot and a photo of the family provided by the Redlands Police Department below.
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