Body found in car, days after it was towed

CNN ^ | April 3, 2013 | Dana Ford

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(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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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.

That report has since been called into question[.]

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Obviously the trooper is an idiot, but I’m surprised the illegals at the junkyard didn’t notice her when they hauled it in.

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[Salamander]

I know this is not really funny but the Cage graphic made me LOL.

[shame on you!....and I’m stealing it]

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See post #3.

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Steal some more.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-dont-say

[Darksheare]

Real thorough look over of the vehicle there trooper!
*groan*

[ilovesarah2012]

In Asheville there was a yellow stripe painted right over the dead possum. At least this guy went around it. LOL

[nascarnation]

Article says he’s on paid admin leave now.
Nice reward, no?

[cardinal4]

Paid leave? Good work if you can get it..

[Darksheare]

Yeah, don’t spot a body and get a padi vacation.
Makes you wonder what else he has not noticed.

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[Darksheare]

Padi?
Err.. paid.

[Salamander]

:D

I love that movie.

Hell, I love Cage.

That dude’s insane.

[ilovesarah2012]

I guess it happens a lot. LOL

[Nik Naym]

I’d be willing to bet ten to one that the trooper didn’t want to get his shoes dirty or was too lazy to actually go into the ditch and check out the car and that he merely observed it from the road.

The sad part is the possibility that the woman in the car might have been still alive at the time.

And for that the lazy cop gets a paid vacation.

[Sir Napsalot]

“slumped in the front seat”

is not hard to spot, by the trooper or the tow truck operator, no?

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You’d think so, huh?

[PoloSec]

This just might show negatively on the troopers performance evaluation...Maybe!

Probably depends on whether or not he is Union.

[Right Wing Assault]

Notice the slight twitch to the left on the possum pic? Looks as if he had an initial urge to go around it but that would have been too much extra work.