Posted on 06/23/2005 10:05:41 AM PDT by robowombat
Associated Press June 22, 2005
A trial is under way in Gwinnett County for a mortician accused of killing a man and stuffing his body beneath the bed at the funeral home.
Jordan Lee Warbington III is charged with murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault in the death of 43-year-old Kenneth Cain on May 14th, 2003. The trial began yesterday.
Warbington is the son of a mortuary owner. He lived and worked at the family-owned business where Cain's body was found wrapped in a tarp under a bed.
Authorities say the body was in the early stages of decomposition.
Police believe Cain was struck in the head with a blunt object while sitting on the couch in Warbington's apartment at the mortuary. District Attorney Danny Porter says Warbington owed Cain money for drugs.
Authorities arrested the 37-year-old Warbington while he was on vacation in Florida on May 17th -- the day after Cain's body was found.
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alrighty then...
This is the same District Attorney Danny Porter who dealt with the runaway bride. He's a magnet for strange cases.
I'm surprised that the idiot didn't take one of the caskets and put the body in. Take casket out on the next funeral and put it in the gravesite.
Slow business week and thought he would just drum some up?
Open and shut case. Life without parole for terminal stupidity, and gross laziness.
You would think a Mortician would be able to think up a more creative way to dispose of a body. Something like forgetting and leaving the crematory running.
That guy is pretty creepy, but the creepiest mortician of all time has to be the tall guy in "Phantasm".
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