I see what you did there............
Posted on 07/21/2014 5:41:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The late Casey Kasem's body is missing, more than a month after the radio icon's death, according to his daughter.
A spokesperson for Kerri Kasem confirmed to ABC News that the legend's adult children have yet to see his body. Kasem died on June 15 at 82 years old after suffering from a form of dementia. An autopsy has also not been performed yet, the family said.
Jean Kasem denied to ABC News that his body is missing.
Jean Kasem, the radio personality's second wife, had been embroiled in a conflict with his children from a previous marriage over her husband's medical care for months before he died. She collected the body within 72 hours of his death.
Kerri Kasem was informed Thursday that Kasem's body was no longer at the mortuary, where it remained for a month.
Gaffney Mortuary also confirms that Kasem is no longer in their care.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
This is getting as ridiculous as when James Brown died.
Like, zoinks Scooby!
CC
Hangin with Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia Earhardt?
Ditto for Ted Williams.
Obviously, this is a false flag to set us up for the real attack. /sarc
I see what you did there............
Are auditions still going on for the new season of “The Walking Dead”?
Aliens...
no, wait, he WAS an alien.
His body dissolved at death.
To state the obvious ... this case is d**n weird.
Ever hear the old song “I’ll fly away?”
Well.........................maybe he did!
Jinkys. This looks like a case for Scooby Doo!
Ya, he has a big estate. I heard he was worth tens of millions of dollars. Decades of show business success and good investing made him wealthy.
No love lost between the wife and his adult children from the first marriage. It could get ugly if it ends up in court.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Why Montreal? Is there a connection? Did he live there with the wife, or does she plan to live there now?
It was probably the crooked property developer again, and he would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!
Death Certificate anyone???
There was a lot of fanfare at James Brown’s “funeral” but the body wasn’t buried for years afterwards as his daughters and his wife were in litigation.
No idea, none that I know of, other than perhaps sending his body to Canada to avoid some sort of legal situation re: burial, cremation, who knows..
Is Ted still frozen?
from Radio Info.com:
Status of Casey Kasem’s Remains Still in Question. The bizarre and sad tale of the end of radio legend Casey Kasem’s life has not ended. The current drama involves questions of the whereabouts of Kasem’s body more than a month after his death on June 15. The Ottawa Citizen reports that Kasem’s body was shipped to Montreal by Kasem’s widow Jean and Tacoma funeral director Corey Gaffney confirmed to the paper he personally saw the delivery of Kasem to the airline and that the body arrived in Montreal. However, the funeral home in Montreal where Kasem was supposed to arrive tells The Canadian Press it has no records of the body arriving there. A Washington state judge ordered Jean Kasem to keep Kasem’s remains preserved at the Tacoma facility until a hearing for and autopsy petition could take place on July 25.
Ottawa Citizen:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Radio+star+Casey+Kasems+remains+sent+Montreal+Funeral+home/10046109/story.html
SEATTLE - The head of a Washington state funeral home that had initial responsibility for radio personality Casey Kasem says he personally made sure his remains were put on a flight to Montreal last Monday.
Corey Gaffney, the president of Gaffney Funeral Home of Tacoma, says he confirmed the remains arrived in Montreal and media reports suggesting they have disappeared are not true.
Some U.S. media outlets quoted Kasem’s daughter Kerri as saying her father’s remains were missing.
In the months before his death June 15, Kasem’s daughter has been embroiled in a battle with his wife of the past 34 years, Jean Kasem, over the welfare of the legendary radio star.
A death certificate filed in a Washington State court July 15 listed Montreal funeral home Urgel Bourgie as the place of disposition, and July 14 as the date of disposition.
The Montreal funeral home told The Canadian Press on Saturday it had no record of Kasem’s remains as being at the facility or that they were supposed to arrive.
Phil Fredette, head of the Funeral Service Association of Canada, said in an email that funeral homes don’t generally release such information “due to privacy and the Privacy Act in Canada.”
There was no immediate explanation for why Kasem’s remains would have gone to Montreal. Gaffney said he couldn’t comment on why Kasem’s wife picked Montreal.
”What we did was made sure that Casey got to the airport, we released custody of Casey to the airline,” Gaffney said in an interview Saturday night.
“The airline signed for that and acknowledged that and then at that point we returned to our office, tracked his flight to Montreal, confirmed that he had arrived, reported that to Mrs. Kasem.”
”When he landed in Montreal, I ceased being the funeral director in charge.”
A judge granted Kerri Kasem a temporary restraining order preventing her father’s wife from cremating his remains, but her lawyer told The Associated Press that when he approached the Tacoma funeral home with a copy of the restraining order, he was told it no longer had the remains.
“They said they could not disclose where he had gone or where he would end up,” said the lawyer, Scott Winship.
The death certificate was filled out by Jean Kasem and listed an address in Jerusalem, Israel, according to a copy filed in Pierce County Superior Court.
Teruyuki Olsen, a lawyer for Kasem’s wife, refused to comment Friday or provide any information about what happened to Kasem’s body.
Kasem, the radio host of “American Top 40” was 82 when he died last month.
Kerri Kasem, one of three children from Kasem’s first marriage, also asked a judge last week for authorization to seek an autopsy on her father as well as a temporary restraining order to ensure his body was held in cold storage and not cremated until that autopsy is completed.
Judge Ronald Culpepper ordered Jean Kasem to ensure that the radio host’s remains were preserved and that his body stayed at the Tacoma funeral home until the court decided on the autopsy petition following a July 25 hearing.
The story has created an international stir with mainstream and entertainment media outlets as far away as the United Kingdom running stories on the latest developments.
“Location of Casey Kasem’s Body Suddenly Unknown,” said the headline on Rolling Stone’s website.
“Casey Kasem body missing,” said TMZ.
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