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Source: The Philadelphia InquirerOct.儲存 25--PHILADELPHIA Police searched a North Philadelphia ravine Thursday afternoon for the body of a man who has been missing for more than a year -- and whose case may be connected to a veteran homicide detective under investigation for allegedly covering up evidence in three killings.Investigators were trying to establish a connection between Detective Ron Dove and the case of Reynaldo Torres, who was 41 when he disappeared May 8, 2012, along with a family friend, Melanie Colon, 22.Colon was found shot to death behind an apartment building in Juniata Park on May 12, 2012. The mother of a 6-year-old boy, she had been shot six times at close range, five times in the chest and once in the back of the head.Torres, a street mechanic and father of two, has never been found.No one answered the door at Torres' sister's home in Juniata Park on Thursday night.Dove's lawyer could not be reached for comment Thursday.Thursday's search marked the latest development in the investigation into Dove, a 16-year veteran who was already under scrutiny for allegedly helping his girlfriend, Erica Sanchez, leave the state after she was accused of stabbing her ex-boyfriend, Cesar Vera, to death in September.On Wednesday, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said Dove was also under investigation for his handling of a fatal shooting in an Olney bar owned by Sanchez's father. Dove was the lead investigator in that case.Police have not yet commented on how Torres' case could be linked to the investigation into Dove, who has been working homicides since 2005.Police have searched Dove's Northeast Philadelphia apartment, confiscating his cellphones and computers.On Thursday, two medical examiners and a crime-scene unit combed the overgrown train ravine at Fourth and Westmoreland Streets for clues, pickingmini storagethrough a mound of earth strewn with trash and garbage bags.At one point, a member of the group examined and photographed a small, slim, bonelike object before placing it into a police van. The object turned out to be a dog's bone, a police officer said.Officers blocked the area off with caution tape and kept passersby away from the bridge crossing the ravine. Internal Affairs officers and other investigators have scoured the site twice this week.Lt. John Stanford, a Police Department spokesman, said he could not comment on the search while the investigation remained open.Dove was removed from street work this month after the department launched an investigation into his conduct in a case involving Sanchez, his girlfriend of five years. She has been charged with murder in Vera's stabbing death at a block party in September and was being held without bail. Vera was Sanchez's ex-boyfriend.Investigators said they believed Dove moved Sanchez's car from the crime scene around the time of the killing and helped her escape to Rochester, N.Y.Dove was also the lead investigator in the 2010 killing of Leslie Delzingaro, a 45-year-old mother of two who was killed in a shooting at J.J.'s Lounge, a bar in Olney owned by Sanchez's father, Humberto Sanchez.Investigators are trying to determine whether Dove used his role as lead detective to suppress the investigation into Delzingaro's death.Delzingaro's family has said Dove did not return their repeated calls about the case and overall was dismissive of their concerns.But Dove made a point of telling them he had a close relationship with the bar owner, whom he described as "a great guy."awhelan@phillynews.com215-854-2961@aubreyjwhelanCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Philadelphia Inquirer Visit The Philadelphia Inquirer at .philly.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage