Woman Drove Around With Corpse For Nearly a YearCOSTA MESA,CALIFORNIA

KTLA NEWS ^ | 10/22/2010 | KTLA NEWS

[FeliciaCat]

Authorities say a woman drove around with a mummified corpse for about ten months before the body was discovered by police.

Officers made the gruesome discovery on Monday while responding to a report of an illegally parked car.

Police say the woman tried to cover the remains with pieces of clothing.

The car was blocking a driveway in the 2000 block of Tustin Avenue in Costa Mesa.

Officers could smell a foul odor coming from the car, and after seeing a leg underneath the clothing, broke a window to get access inside.

Inside the car, officers also found a box of baking soda that the driver used to try to dissipate the smell.

Costa Mesa police believe the body is that a transient woman in her 50's from Fountain Valley.

The driver of the car says she befriended the woman at a local park and allowed her to sleep in the car overnight.

When she found the woman had died, she continued to drive the car with the body, said Sgt. Ed Everett.

The driver told police she was afraid to contact police about the body, so she continued to drive the car.

An autopsy has revealed no obvious signs of foul play.

Officials believe the woman had been dead for as long as 10 months, Everett said.

[gorush]

“I thought she was just a good listener!”

[FeliciaCat]

How did she stand the smell????? unbelievable...

[ColdOne]

and allowed her to sleep in the car overnight. Not her home? Was the woman also a transient?

[ASA Vet]

Woman+drove+around

[fhayek]

Woman drives around with a corpse for nearly a year...

Or as Barack Obama would say, a core...

[married21]

And so, the womens’ journey came to a dead stop.

[nomad]

Must have been a lefty,only a smelly hippie type wouldn`t mind the stench.

[twhitak]

So she was afraid to report the dead body, but not afraid to drive around with it in the car?

[sodpoodle]

Thelma & Louise??

[LostInBayport]

I’m guessing she was planning to get rid of her dead passenger just as soon as the passenger voted democrat on November 2nd.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Another illegal voter for Boxer? Sure smells like one.

[Paleo Conservative]

That’s an interesting way to qualify to use the HOV lane.

[Erasmus]

Well, after all, it got her into the HOV lanes.

[Erasmus]

G.M.T.I.T.S.G.

≤}B^)

[SunkenCiv]

Inside the car, officers also found a box of baking soda that the driver used to try to dissipate the smell.

Thanks FeliciaCat. This reminds me, it's time to check that box in the fridge.

[bushpilot1]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2606951%2C1545

[bushpilot1]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2606951/posts?q=1&;page=1501

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[Nepeta]

A mole once died in my house inside the baseboard heating. The house reeked until one day when I approached the baseboard from just the right angle and saw the little mole corpse.

How this woman could stand a human corpse decomposing in her car eludes me--they don't just die and dry, they generate plenty of fluids and gasses...unbelievable.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Freaking unreal....generally Tustin in Costa Mesa is... or was....an upscale neighborhood.

But Santa Ana is in the area too....a heavily Hispanic locale.