More Dead Dogs and Cats at Summerdale Rescue

Summerdale police returned to Purple Hearted Puppies Rescue looking for more dogs and cats but this time they didn't expect to find them alive. "The information we received is that several of these dogs are buried right here where we're digging," says police chief Eddie Ingram.

Neighbor Terry Landon led police to an area where he says animals had been buried. "I saw them pull in with a cart. I didn't know what they were doing. When I came back to check and look over the property line you could see where they had fresh graves dug up I knew what they were doing."

Armed with shovels, Landon helped officers dig.

"What they were doing was selling the good ones and the ones they couldn't sell I guess they were just letting them starve," says Chief Ingram.

In about 20 minutes authorities had uncovered half a dozen shallow graves. The chief believes that the bodies they have uncovered here are just the tip of the iceberg.

"The information we received from a former employee was around twenty-five. Obviously it could go higher but that is why we are here today so we can get the forensic evidence and so that we can determine just what kind of scale we are operating with. It's going to be a lot worse than it was the other night."

According to chief Ingram every body that is uncovered is more evidence that strengthens felony animal abuse charges now facing Sharon and Roberta Dueitt.

"It's bad, it's bad. I dug one of the gravesites up that had four bodies in that gravesite."

A search of another part of that wooded area turned up several more possible mass gravesites. Police will search the Robertsdale property Friday.

We are told once the Dueitt's are arrested they will be held without bond.