Well, well, well...so cadaver dogs don't lie?

I suggest that all those who insist that 'cadaver dogs' are infallible, ponder this case, where THREE cadaver dogs caused a very expensive, and dangerous, mistake.

http://findcarrie.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=crimes&action=display&num=1145919431

It all started so well, too....

“Cadaver dogs have indicated that there may possible be human remains somewhere in the area, and so we’re proceeding from there. We’re following up on that lead,” said Jeff Johnson, a spokesman for Social Circle Public Safety.

Lt. Chris Cannon of the Walton County sheriff’s office cautioned that the reaction by the dogs was “just a preliminary indication that there is a possibility there may be human remains in the well."

Which led to...

Walton County investigators plan to return to a Social Circle well this morning and continue looking for a 39-year-old woman missing since May 12.

With heavy machinery, investigators dug up about half of a 40-foot-deep well looking for Social Circle resident Tina Marie Hill. The well, located under the porch of a historic house on East Hightower Trail next to Social Circle's city hall, was half-filled with debris.

After noticing a smell coming from the well, Hill's live-in boyfriend, who is refurbishing the house on East Hightower Trail, alerted authorities. The boyfriend, whose name was not available Friday, is not a suspect in Hill's disappearance.

"We don't have evidence of a crime," said Jeff Johnson, director of the Social Circle Department of Public Safety.

Although authorities did not sense any smell coming from the well, they used a fiber-optics camera and cadaver dogs to check the area. Three cadaver dogs alerted authorities to human remains buried in the well, which has not been used for some years, Johnson said.

Sheriff's investigators, along with the Walton County Sheriff's Office, the Walton County Coroner's Office, the Social Circle Department of Public Safety and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner's Office began excavation of the well on Thursday.

Reality starts to sink in...

SOCIAL CIRCLE -- Three days of digging in an abandoned well in Social Circle ended Saturday without finding a trace of a missing Walton County woman.

Diggers reached the bottom of the 38-foot-deep well Saturday afternoon.

"For the last 20 feet, we have hand-dug the well," Lt. Chris Cannon of the Walton County Sheriff's Department said. "We have come up with nothing."

Cadaver dogs had led investigators to suspect they might find the body of Tina Marie Hill, who disappeared May 12.

"Nothing's 100 percent," Cannon said.

Authorities told Hill's family they would continue following leads in the woman's disappearance.

And eventually, the truth comes out....

Weeks after her disappearance last year, cadaver-sniffing dogs led law enforcement officials to a historic home in downtown Social Circle. After digging up an old well, the lead turned into a dead end.

On March 27, Social Circle Public Safety Department officials were tipped off to a possible location of the remains of Hill. Information from the informant and a preliminary investigation of a wooded area behind the Social Circle Veterinary Clinic pointed officials to suspicious depressions in the ground.

The Walton County Sheriff’s Office and the GBI were called in and a day later, the remains of what has now been identified as Hill were discovered, crammed into a 3-foot-deep grave.

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The whole 'well' business was a complete red herring; whatever the 'cadaver dogs' were woofing at, it certainly wasn't a cadaver.