Two Bodies Located Near Covelo Have Now Both Been Identified as the Kidnap Victims Sought by Law Enforcement
Press release from the MCSO:
On 11-23-2020 at approximately 3:30 PM a bystander located the bodies of two deceased persons along Hulls Valley Road in a remote area Northeast of Covelo’s valley floor.
Sheriff’s Detectives responded to the location and confirmed the existence of the two deceased bodies.
Due to pending darkness, the Sheriff’s Detectives processed the scene the following day with the assistance of the California Department of Justice Eureka crime lab and investigators with the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office.
On 11-27-2020 a forensic autopsy was performed on the bodies at which time they were identified as being Kyle James McCartney and Traci Lynn Bland.
An official cause of death for both individuals is pending at this time but Sheriff’s Detectives are investigating their deaths as being homicide related.
Sheriff’s Detectives are continuing investigations at this time and are working closely with the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office in identifying suspect(s) and potential charging/prosecution related to McCartney and Bland’s deaths.
No additional information is available for release at this time due to the Sheriff’s Detectives ongoing investigations.
Once additional information becomes available, it will be disseminated via Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office press release.
The Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the following public safety agencies for their assistance in this ongoing investigation:
Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office, Round Valley Tribal Police Department, California Department of Justice Eureka crime lab and the California Department of Justice Santa Rosa crime lab.
On 11-23-2020 at approximately 3:30 PM a bystander located the bodies of two deceased persons along Hulls Valley Road in a remote area Northeast of Covelo’s valley floor.Earlier Chapters:
- Missing Persons, Possible Kidnapping
- Two Bodies Discovered North of Round Valley; Law Enforcement Believes They Are Connected to Covelo Kidnapping
- Covelo Man Faces Charges Associated with the Kidnapping and Subsequent Deaths of Two Near Covelo
- Another Covelo Man Faces Charges Associated with Round Valley Kidnapping and Homicides
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Hardly anyone dies in a ditch, partially beheaded, of “natural causes”, eh?
What is “partial beheading”? Could you provide more info on this or post a link for more info?
Sometimes suicide victims are found with their hads tied behind their back & shot in the head.
One got away to call for help. Two picked up identified as the henchmen. Extra chatter says it was 3 couples. One couple dead. One couple in jail. Other male of couple in jail. Where is the other lady? Some say she is missing now too. Maybe this,was not the murderers first victims. Lotta missing folks in Covelo. Hmmm.
No there were 4 men who murdered 2 people.and the 3rd who got away was Kyle’s dad.
Killing couples involved in the weed trade seems to occur outside of the Triangle.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8946755/Slain-couple-uncovered-snowplow-California-identified-husband-wife.html
I live in Erie and vaguely remember hearing about this but I never heard how it was resolved until I read this article. The agency that arrested them (The PA State Police Narcotics Unit) is known for the bigger busts in this area. They have a weird network of informants divided between the more urban city and rural county. I’d love to know the details of what lead to their arrest in Erie but clearly someone here set them up. They got caught up right before the prices went up and supply went down but definitely weren’t the only ones doing it. Thanks for sharing I ended up sharing this article with a ton of locals.
Mr Eyster:
The entire county is watching. The citizens of Covelo are frightened. There is only one main paved road in and out of this cursed valley of genocide and death. This type of callous murder and death has been the normal since the 1850’s between the County of Mendocino and the families who were victims and survivors of the 1850-1870s forced relocation to Covelo, Round Valley. Nome Cult Farm: AKA- The Rez, Reservation.
There has been bitter family and tribal feuds ever since then because many of these tribes were born enemies of eachother before being forced to live together on the locked reservation which was more like an internment camp where indians were subjected to cruel punishment, starvation and no abilities for self improvement as the genocide and oppression continued into the 1960s in Mendocino County.
There is now a Cartel which has moved into town bringing with them methamphetamine, weapons, cocaine and opiate and heroine derivatives. The stolen weapons being brought into Covelo is arming some of the worst criminal elements while the drugs are doing some serious damage to the young people and old people of Round Valley just alike. The Valley needs some real Law Enforcement and not just bullshit eradication efforts aimed at asset forfeiture dollars. Some real patrol amd investigative work, even a local Sheriffs Substation in Covelo at the Rangers Station. Start serving the warrants for the criminals already wanted in the area. The time is now, the hard drugs, human smuggling prostitution is making Covelo a very dangerous place to be, mix this with people who are not well educated or very smart to begin with and we are left with a looming disaster! Please prosecute these men to the maximum amount of time the law will allow. The next generation is watching and learning and the problem will pass on to the next generation of Round Valley thugs and criminals
I can understand why law enforcement has a problem with Covelo in general, does anyone else remember Bear Lincoln killing two people, one a deputy, and getting away with it? The residents can clean up their own act, not blame others, and really, blaming everything bad from victimization in the 19th century is self defeating. Again, they can try to take care of their own community, not expect the great white father to solve all their problems for them…
You are the problem, you and your attitude.
I am appalled by what you said. Blaming the indigenous for their cultural destruction…you only reveal your ignorance and lack of empathy.
ROUND VALLEY ELDERS
TRIBAL POLICE
Juanita…
Please then lets change it rather than doing absolutely nothing to flip the script. Stand up, stand proud, get the cartels out, quit with the meth acceptance and general poor delinquent behaviors. Call the tweekers out. Clean up the valley of all forms of garbage. Come on RVEPA! Let the land recover. Let people be kind, all who can should get services like pre school, trade or other adult schooling, job help, not just the ones who’s families hold office. Stop teaching our kids to be micro thugs, grown ups laughing while the kids tear up the yard or each other. If people stand up let them instead of bullying them into forced silence. All this shit has got to stop, if ya’ll want better then be a better person.
If your running things yet dipping on the other side too, turning a blind eye for $ how can you? Shame on you. I cry for the pain of all. Connie has never gotten the peace she deserves in her life. The one comfort she needs what happened to her girl. No one will give her that kindness WHY? Many know yet no one speaks. The crimes and indigenous on indigenous crimes are beyond any point, reason or measure in the valley.
Sigh…
😥🙏😥🙏😥❤😥🙏😥🙏😥
That isn’t right. Indians have gone through enough of being lied to, their land stolen from and having to be forced to live on reservation. The great white fathers of the past did exactly that, it’s time for a change, however with that being said, the Indians need to assert themselves for a much better lifestyle, and you can’t do that while you are using drugs, and you need to stop killing. Follow the law and clean up your act, your homes and get rid of bad mouthing others. Look for the god in people and start going to church.
The more I read about Covelo this year, the more it seems like a different version of Oakland, California. So glad law enforcement has been told not to enforce the law because of Covid….
Shame.
I will comment that a lot of the West Coast tribes were not necessarily always warlike. They had to do a lot of gathering and traveling to survive they didn’t have time to fight and kill each other. But since everyone doesn’t have to hustle to keep food in their bellies and a dry place to lay at night why not fight about things that happened a couple hundred years before we were born makes perfect sense. Stay stuck . There is nothing more important, nor ever will be than fighting and or killing whenever, wherever and whomever when you feel someone did ya dirty or wrong. Do two wrongs make a right? Apparently in Covelo they do.
Absolutely right, most tribes in the area subsisted on fish, acorn meal, small game and greens and clovers as well as pinole from grass seeds. The pomo were alot more like buddhists than Television indians. They lived in peace and practiced “war games” with tribelets and neighboring tribes. A great meeting place was Blue Rock on Bell Springs road where these games were played, ending when thebfirst man was killed or seriously injured. There was a harmony of living in tune with the natural cycle of the earth and seasons before the coming of gold seekers in 1849. These families and people in Covelo are survivors of a very horrible genocide which took place, indians were not even allowed to get haircuts or go to movie theaters in neighboring towns until the 1960s. The racism and hatred prevailed Mendocino County before the back to the land movement of the late 1960s. These families have deep rooted pain and suffering.
Cut off ALL native american funding for Covelo until they have two quarters (half year) with no murders/ robberies, etc.
NoGovernment thats a good direction. Not certain if the Round Valley Tribes would have enough funding or personal to go at it alone.
National Guard, Fish and Game set up a game warden school. Build a local presence of deputies, citizen militia type unit.
Stand up to the scummy ways.
Sure the ancestors had a hard time. But they sure as hell were not strung out on meth or black, huffing on whip its listening to Lil Xan.
Which is worse what happened then or what happened now? Oh hell more to come, to little too late same ol’ shit different day.
Friends who were caretakers of a rural — not marijuana — property had tro stay home during the owner`s funeral to guard the place. The executor/lawyerfor the estate was adamant they had to stay home during the funeral. Apparently thieves peruse obituaries/funeral notices & then burglarize a place during the funeral.
There are people out there who will steal the stink off a turd.