I'm a cleric.
We don't have any bodies in our basement, so far as I know.
Maybe they meant "clerk." (But I hate to demean clerks.)
Ahhhhh, xzins.... you know as well as I do that "cleric" is media-ese for "bloodthirsty salamikaze." They just can't bring themselves to call such animals what they really are.
Do you check the basement regularly, just in case one, twenty five or so appear on their own?