Wednesday, August 20, 2008

By Paul Wagenseil

The hunt was on Wednesday for two North American forest-roaming bipeds,
last seen in Northern California, present whereabouts unknown.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the Georgia men who claimed to have found a
Bigfoot body, were being sought by Tom Biscardi, whose money they
absconded with once the frozen "corpse" was revealed to be a hoax.

"We have a contract with these people," Biscardi, a former Las Vegas
promoter now based in Menlo Park, Calif., told Fox News Wednesday morning.
"We paid them the money the night before [the press conference.] ... They
didn't figure I'd have a turbo heater on that thing to thaw it out before
they left California."

Biscardi wouldn't confirm where the body was, but it apparently had been
moved from Georgia to Indiana. An Indianapolis Fox affiliate was given a
look at the "corpse" Monday by Biscardi's investigator, Steve Kulls.

Asked to confirm rumors that he'd given Dyer and Whitton a $50,000 advance
on future earnings from the bogus Bigfoot, Biscardi would say only that
"it was a substantial amount of money" numbering in the thousands which
came from unnamed "investors."