New search made of S. Ind. yard where body found

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Police investigators and a forensic anthropologist again searched the backyard of a southern Indiana man’s home where a woman’s body was found buried after he was charged with killing two other women.

New Albany Police Chief Sherri Knight says cadaver dogs led investigators to a couple spots in 54-year-old William Clyde Gibson’s yard but that the University of Indianapolis anthropology team found nothing during the Monday search.

Police Maj. Keith Whitlow says it is possible the dogs found scents from the body of 35-year-old Stephanie Kirk of Charlestown that was discovered in Gibson’s yard on April 27.

Gibson faces murder charges in the April death of a 75-year-old family friend at his home and the 2002 death of a woman whose body was found near the Ohio River.