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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Clifford Wheeler leads Sheriff Will Wood to the burial site of Minnie Gehardt, a victim murdered and dismembered by Joe Ball, a roadside tavern operator near Elmendorf, Texas, who died by suicide. Another victim, Mary Brown, was previously found buried. Up to six women may have been killed.
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 27. (UP)—Sheriff Will Wood will accompany Clifford Wheeler, 32 year old Negro, today to the spot where the body of the second woman victim of a crazed roadside tavern operator was known to have been buried. Wheeler told the sheriff he helped Joe Ball, 46, dig a shallow grave and place the dismembered parts of Minnie Gehardt's body in it more than a year ago. Sunday Wheeler took officers to the grave of Ball's first known victim, Mary Brown.
Authorities were certain that Ball, who killed himself Saturday after he was questioned about the disappearances of several women, had killed others, perhaps as many as six. At least four young women who worked as hostesses in his roadside tavern near Elmendorf, Tex., disappeared without indicating to other employes that they planned to leave.
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Elmendorf, Tex.
Event Date
Sept. 27
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joe ball killed himself saturday; dismembered bodies of minnie gehardt and mary brown buried; at least four other women disappeared, possibly up to six victims total.
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Clifford Wheeler, who helped Joe Ball bury the dismembered body of Minnie Gehardt more than a year ago, leads Sheriff Will Wood to the grave today; previously took officers to Mary Brown's grave on Sunday; Ball, a crazed roadside tavern operator, killed himself after questioning about disappearances of hostesses from his tavern near Elmendorf.