Milwaukee Police have begun digging up the yard of a home once owned by notorious Milwaukee drug dealer Michael Lock, as detectives look for the remains of homicide victims.
Police began digging on the afternoon of April 20 of the home at 4343 N. 15th Street. City tax records show the property is owned by Shalonda Lock, Michael Lock’s wife.
Detectives are executing a search warrant that remains sealed. There has long been suspicion on the part of law enforcement that there are additional bodies buried under the yard. A Milwaukee Police Department spokesman could not be reached immediately for comment.
A jury convicted Lock in July 2008 in the homicides of two drug dealers in 1999 and 2000. Their remains were found in 2005 under concrete slabs in the backyard of a home once owned by Lock at 4900 W. Fiebrantz Ave.
Lock, the purported head of a murderous criminal organization known as the “Body Snatchers,” is serving multiple terms of life in prison without the chance of parole.
Lock’s crew dealt large volumes of cocaine and robbed other dealers, kidnapping, torturing and sometimes killing them, according to testimony. They brought terror to the parts of Milwaukee where they operated.
The Journal Sentinel documented the case against Lock in a series, “The Preacher’s Mob.”
This story will be updated.
Reporter Mary Spicuzza contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee police dig yard of Michael Lock, looking for homicide victims
Reporting by John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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