Posted on 07/20/2014 1:31:44 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Two Florida men hired to clean out a vacant house mistook a hanging corpse for a Halloween-style hoax – and took it to the dump.
Workers Israel Lopez, 50, and Adam Hines, 30, told authorities they were tidying the house in Spring Hill at the request of the landlord when they came upon the corpse in the garage.
The pair cut it down, believing it to be a mannequin, before hauling it to the local rubbish tip where a landfill worker realised it was a body and called the police.
‘Both individuals as well as the property owners believed the lifelike mannequin was a distasteful Halloween-like hoax left by the former renters,’ Hernando County Sheriff’s office said in a statement.
‘They cut the mannequin down, placed it on top of a pile of garbage in the back of the pick-up truck and proceeded to the landfill.’
Hernando County Sheriff’s officials said on Thursday that 33-year-old former tenant Jeremy Witsoth apparently committed suicide several weeks ago in the property, and that the body was ‘in a state of decomposition similar to mummification’.
Spring Hill isn’t really a town. It’s an outlying bedroom community for Tampa. Like most such communities there isn’t really anything there except a Walmart and several strip malls.
...and one you will never forget...
(ex-LEO not serial killer...: )
Likely story ... :)
How could they not have realized it was a body? Was he like super skinny or something, because I’d think the weight would be a clue.
The human body is mostly water. Take out the water, and it’s a lot lighter.
LOL!
Good attitude.
Fk em....
He wasn’t dead...he was just pinin’
Didn’t look Norwegian to me.
Not only that, the guy could have been kept to use as a perfectly good "distasteful Halloween" decoration.
And I thought that recycling was "green."
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