Posted on 12/04/2011 9:38:53 AM PST by Gamecock
AUGUSTA, Maine -- The Maine State Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Friday that human remains discovered six weeks ago in an unused freezer inside a Lewiston storage unit are those of Kitty Wardwell, who disappeared in 1983 at the age of 29.
The M.E.'s Office also has ruled that Wardwell's death was a homicide but her cause of death is being withheld, according to Steve McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
The M.E.'s Office said the remains were identified earlier this week through DNA testing at a Pennsylvania laboratory. McCausland said the results were forwarded Thursday to the medical examiner and state police detectives. Wardwell's family was notified Friday morning, he said.
Wardwell's remains were found Oct. 21 inside an unplugged freezer in a storage locker at Moore Self Storage on Lisbon Street. The storage unit had been rented for 19 years by 80-year-old Frank Julian of Lewiston, who died unexpectedly on Oct. 1. Julian's family members were clearing out the unit when they discovered the remains.
Julian was the last person to see Wardwell alive and was her boyfriend at the time of her disappearance. McCausland said detectives plan to interview Julian's relatives to find the origin of the freezer and when it was placed in the storage facility
Someone is 80 and they call the death unexpected?
I would have hated to be the person who opened that freezer!
Now that is a serious horder! ;-)
Will we see this on Storage Wars?
The incident I remember was a locker was auctioned off for non-payment, and bodies were found. It turned out that a husband killed his wife and kid(s), and remarried. Eventually, the new wife took over the bill paying, and didn't recognize the storage charges, so she stopped paying.
Perhaps it would be a good Company policy if freezers were not allowed to be stored in lockers - or in a special location that is accessible for inspection by Company personnel.
The issue of privacy is a non starter. If you want to keep your personal items in a storage locker - there is no need for a freezer. You hunters can keep your kills at home.
You’re right. Items stored in a locker should be regulated and inspected.
Not to mention terrorists.
Do the police suspect foul play?
Why stop with storage lockers?
Attics, basements, and closets should be regulated and inspected too. /s
All we need is the government having one more excuse to perform proctology on the masses while in the meantime, people who want to stash a corpse will find some other way.
That’s not what I typed and you know it.
I am simply suggesting that the Companies who own storage facilities institute policies to avoid hiding frozen bodies and meat. I don’t understand why anyone would store a storage appliance in a storage locker - makes no sense.
COD: probably being tied up and left in a freezer in a storage site. But I am just guessing.
Lewiston is really the pits.
Except for Bates...and even that has slipped.
although I did spend a couple of good nights at some little dive dance bar done near the mills. Hubba Hubba.
“Not many storage lockers have electric power, at least not around here. There are times when putting a freezer makes sense (moved to a smaller apartment, temporarily, etc.).”
I have heard of people living in storage facilities.
The storage unit is the “smaller apartment.”
Well, it was what you typed, and I was merely pointing out that sometimes many of us have a knee-jerk reaction to a bad thing by calling for more regulation, bureaucracy and government interference. We have to quit thinking that way.
And, why wouldn’t you store a freezer in a storage locker? If you don’t have room for it right now, are moving, thinking about selling it, etc., you might put it in a storage locker.
We have a serious housing shortage, here, though (Western North Dakota).
We have a serious housing shortage, here, though (Western North Dakota).
What about large dressers, cabinets, wardrobes, hope chest, quilt box, trunk, a moving box, etc? If you want to store a body, you can find something to stuff it into. A few parts here and a few parts there and it'll fit into anything. Of course, the first time you don't make the payment, you're caught which makes storage units not so well thought through. But then stupid is as stupid does.
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