November 19, 2004
Paging Hannibal Lechter, White Courtesy Phone Please

Sometimes you don't really want to know what your parents have stashed away in storage lockers:

A mother's deathbed confession led police on Thursday to a dead body in a storage locker freezer, and officials said the corpse may be that of the woman's husband whom she murdered more than a decade ago.

As I recall, something strangely similar happened in the town I grew up in (all from memory, Pat can probably straighten out any inconsistencies): Back in the 1950s, a reclusive farmer reported his wife missing, and police were never able to find her. In the late 1980s, the farmer died and the government bought the land his barn stood on for a new town post office. As workers were demolishing the barn, they found the remains of what would later be identified as the farmer's wife, entombed for some thirty years in the foundation of the barn.

I guess it just goes to show it's not the violent, loud, foul-tempered people you have to watch out for. Rather, it's those quiet, mousy people who keep to themselves that seem to be getting away with murder.

Posted by scott at November 19, 2004 11:56 AM

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Don't remember anything about the situation you are writing about. That is surely a story I would remember even if I can't remember my own phone number at times. They tell me long term memory is the last to go. lol

Posted by: Pat on November 19, 2004 12:57 PM

Which is funny, because I recall it was you who told me. Ah well, sometimes I dream things. Makes a nifty story, at any rate.

Posted by: scott on November 19, 2004 01:07 PM

2 thoughts came to mind.

1. What happens to a decomposing body when it is locked in an airtight freezer for a decade. Not pretty I imagine.

2. If storage facilities all over the country were searched, how many bodies would be found?

Posted by: carrie on November 19, 2004 01:58 PM

Rather, it's those quiet, mousy people who keep to themselves...

Mwwaaaaahahahaha! Ummm, I mean, YEAH!

Cool story, though.

Posted by: maru on November 19, 2004 06:15 PM

body=sludge after a while.. especially airtight. bleh...

Posted by: ellen on November 19, 2004 06:50 PM
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