Happens all the time.
Posted on 04/04/2013 7:09:06 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
(CNN) -- Angry. Sad. Grieving.
That's how family members of 62-year-old Carolyn Watkins described their feelings after her body was discovered in a car, days after it was towed from a crash.
"We were wondering where she was, and she was in the car the whole time," said Algernon Parker, 42, Watkins' son.
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Her car was taken to the yard Friday after a trooper discovered it in a ditch in Johnston County, North Carolina. In his report, the trooper noted that no one was in the vehicle.
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They filed a report, prompting detectives to go back to the car to search for clues. They found Watkins instead, slumped in the front seat.
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Why am I not surprised?
In response to this crisis, Democrats will propose a law banning people from wearing clothes matching the color of their car seats.
Five or six years ago I was returning home when the car in front of me suddenly swerved to the left and went straight into a deep ditch. I pulled over, called 911, and was getting ready to go down into the ditch when a trooper arrived. He told me to stay where I was, looked down and declared that the driver was drunk and they would get him out when the tow truck arrived. The next day I read in the paper that the driver had had a heart attack and died before reaching the ER. Oh, how I wish I had told the trooper where to go and gone down to the car!
Also found in the front seat of the car were 500 pounds of cocaine, 75 “assault” rifles, and a dead zebra.
In the rear seat there were 75 dead illegal aliens.
The tow truck driver charged $500 extra since he had to hire a semi- tow truck, since his regular truck was having trouble moving the vehicle for some unknown reason.
Sooooo, cop didn’t see her, tow truck operator didn’t see her, what are the odds of two complete idiots being at the same place at the same time?
Happens all the time.
The odds increase exponentially, the closer you get to Washington, D.C.
What was on the local news was that her body was in the floorboard completely hidden by the airbag that had deployed.
Still no excuse. He should have looked under the airbag.
Think what this will do in his future. Any time he goes to court on any other case, this will be used by the defense to demonstrate his incompetence.
The cops wait for the smell before they can detect a body, maybe they should have more ME’s.
He didn’t want to make the rest of the Union crew look bad.
"Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
This happened nearby here. The dead woman’s family is are less outraged now that the photo of the Highway Patrol Officer has been published. He looks a lot like them.
Reportedly the photos of the car at the scene were taken by a daughter in law who didn’t see any body either.
http://www.wral.com/family-clayton-woman-s-body-left-in-towed-car-after-wreck/12294636/ (car photo is #2)
http://www.wral.com/family-clayton-woman-found-in-towed-car-likely-died-in-crash/12300731/
It’s in an area populated with lots of Mexicans/illegals. Their standard process is to crash drunk in the middle of the night and just abandon the vehicle. The poor officer probably thought he was just towing off another one of those, never to be claimed. Prayers out to the officer in this case, actually.
Carolyn Ann Watkins' 2000 Pontiac was found in a watery ditch, down
a steep embankment off Swift Creek Road, about 4 miles southwest
of Smithfield on March 29, 2013. The car was towed to an impound lot,
and the woman's body was found inside three days later. Someone passing
by the crash scene took this picture and later gave it to the family.
Passenger compartment looks pretty intact.
No seat belt worn?
Thanks, I’m not geeky enough to know how to post photos.
(geeky is a compliment)
That is the local conjecture.
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