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Woman Drove Around With Corpse For Nearly a YearCOSTA MESA,CALIFORNIA
KTLA NEWS ^ | 10/22/2010 | KTLA NEWS

Posted on 10/22/2010 3:40:31 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beverlyhillbillies; california; costamesa; crazywoman
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1 posted on 10/22/2010 3:40:35 PM PDT by FeliciaCat
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To: FeliciaCat

“I thought she was just a good listener!”


2 posted on 10/22/2010 3:42:09 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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How did she stand the smell????? unbelievable...


3 posted on 10/22/2010 3:43:23 PM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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and allowed her to sleep in the car overnight. Not her home? Was the woman also a transient?
4 posted on 10/22/2010 3:45:36 PM PDT by ColdOne (GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^))...../When Obama fails America Wins!)
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Woman+drove+around
5 posted on 10/22/2010 3:46:09 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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Woman drives around with a corpse for nearly a year...

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

6 posted on 10/22/2010 3:47:40 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: FeliciaCat

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


7 posted on 10/22/2010 3:48:57 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Must have been a lefty,only a smelly hippie type wouldn`t mind the stench.
8 posted on 10/22/2010 4:09:56 PM PDT by nomad
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To: FeliciaCat

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


9 posted on 10/22/2010 4:20:13 PM PDT by twhitak
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Thelma & Louise??


10 posted on 10/22/2010 4:29:08 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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I’m guessing she was planning to get rid of her dead passenger just as soon as the passenger voted democrat on November 2nd.


11 posted on 10/22/2010 4:29:19 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: FeliciaCat

Another illegal voter for Boxer? Sure smells like one.


12 posted on 10/22/2010 4:32:29 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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That’s an interesting way to qualify to use the HOV lane.


13 posted on 10/22/2010 4:58:36 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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Well, after all, it got her into the HOV lanes.


14 posted on 10/22/2010 6:29:04 PM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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G.M.T.I.T.S.G.

≤}B^)

15 posted on 10/22/2010 6:30:26 PM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
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.


16 posted on 10/22/2010 10:05:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: ASA Vet

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


17 posted on 10/22/2010 10:29:34 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2606951/posts?q=1&;page=1501

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18 posted on 10/22/2010 10:31:31 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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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.
19 posted on 10/23/2010 3:14:41 AM PDT by Nepeta
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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.

20 posted on 10/23/2010 8:00:08 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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