KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — A mother is in custody after her two children were found barefoot, dirty, and living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave — part of a massive subterranean network carved out beneath Kansas City.
A look at the history of the caves:
Extensive limestone mining in the late 1800s and early 1900s created the millions of square feet of caves that are scattered throughout metropolitan Kansas City, in Kansas and Missouri.