Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine, whose tips recently led investigators to three separate abandoned well sites in San Joaquin County containing over 1000 bones and fragments from murder victims of decades past, is demanding cash before he divulges anything more. Shermantine is on death row, so it's not like he can go shopping or whatever, but apparently the cash is important to him nevertheless for buying Snickers bars and generally improving prison life.

Shermantine was offered $33,000 in outstanding reward monies from a bounty hunter last month and thus began fessing up to the burial sites. He's so far revealed three separate sites, including the two wells in San Joaquin County, and he's said that there are two more sites, including another well.

Investigators have long believed that Shermantine and his now deceased partner in crime, Loren Herzog, were responsible for upwards of 20 murders that remained unsolved, but each man was only tried for a small handful for which they had evidence. When bounty hunter Leonard Padilla (shown in the video below with a bunch of really scary knives hanging on his wall) offered Shermantine the cash, he started blabbing, but Padilla only promised $2,000 before it could be determined that he was telling the truth. (That check's still in the mail.) Now Shermantine wants the entire balance of the cash before saying anything else.

[ABC 7]

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