Evidence of Tunnels at McMartin Site Reported
A former FBI agent said Friday he has uncovered evidence there may have been an underground room and a tunnel beneath the now-closed McMartin Pre-School in Manhattan Beach.
Former Los Angeles FBI chief Ted L. Gunderson has been overseeing excavation at the school site where several former students say they were molested.
Some students once claimed they were taken to secret underground areas, but investigators could never find any. A Superior Court jury earlier this year acquitted one defendant of all charges and another of most.
The district attorney’s office, which is retrying former McMartin teacher Ray Buckey on eight molestation counts stemming from the alleged sexual abuse of three girls from 1979 until 1983, said the excavation is unrelated to its prosecution.
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