Florida authorities search ranch for victims linked to serial killer Mansfield

Decades after four bodies were unearthed on a Florida property tied to convicted serial killer Billy Mansfield, investigators have returned to the earth itself in search of what words and negotiations could not yield. At Dry Creek Ranch in Hernando County, cadaver dogs and excavation crews now work where memory and silence have long held dominion, driven not by the prospect of prosecution but by something older and more insistent — the human need to know what became of the missing. In a case that spans five decades, multiple states, and an unknown number of victims, the search continues as a q