Police: Sibling Couple Kept Dead Son In Casket 12 years (WEIRD)

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[chance33_98]

Police: Sibling Couple Kept Dead Son In Casket

Brother Arrested For Incest

Updated: 9:55 a.m. EST February 27, 2002

MOORE HAVEN, Fla. -- A Central Florida couple who are allegedly brother and sister are accused of keeping a casket containing the body of their infant son inside their home for 12 years.

The Glades County sheriff's office said that the casket was found in the home of Samuel Thomas Patrick and his wife Debra Lynn Patrick, who are also brother and sister.

Investigators said that they also found the Patricks' nine children and four grandchildren.

Acting on a complaint, authorities went to Patrick's home and discovered the casket of Joshua Patrick, who died of natural causes when he was eight months old. Detectives say the casket was exhumed from an Okeechobee County cemetery in 1990, but it's not yet clear when the boy died.

Samuel Patrick has been arrested on incest charges.

Deputies said that the family lived on a ranch owned by Lykes Brothers, where Patrick worked.

[chance33_98]

Calling Jerry Springer....

[Ward Smythe]

Investigators said that they also found the Patricks' nine children and four grandchildren.

Found them where? Are they alive?

[AppyPappy]

I bet this gets REALLY ugly.

[krb]

that's nasty.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

as a florida resident let me tell you central florida is very backwoods and rednecky(i dont know if thats is a word but it fits) alot of people who dont live here dont realize that it not all disney world and hip like miami

[chance33_98]

Found them where? Are they alive?

I was wondering the same thing, I will have to check some other news stations and see if there is better coverage of the story. Will update you if I find out something...

[thesharkboy]

Samuel Patrick has been arrested on incest charges.

So I guess the sister/wife/whatever hasn't been accused of incest?

[AppyPappy]

Probably alive. But living in the Appalachians, I have a really bad feeling about those grandkids.

[beowolf]

Maybe they are idiot savants at banjo playing!-)

[wideawake]

Perhaps he forced his underage sister into the arrangement? Or perhaps she's turning state's evidence for a reduced charge?

[aomagrat]

[JBCiejka]

I can't understand why they did not account for the casket after it was exhumed. Can you get a casket and not give it back? You would think the cemetary would have contacted someone about it not being returned. And why was it exhumed in the first place?

[Thinkin' Gal]

Acting on a complaint...

??? Do we really want to know?

[Madstrider]

I can't understand why they did not account for the casket after it was exhumed. Can you get a casket and not give it back? You would think the cemetary would have contacted someone about it not being returned. And why was it exhumed in the first place?

Well, they were going to have him cremated in north Georgia by a uncle/brother and never got around to it!!!

[cajungirl]

These people need Closure

[Madstrider]

So I guess the sister/wife/whatever hasn't been accused of incest?

I've got a bad feeling about those grandkids, too. So just to cover the bases lets say sister/wife/aunt !!!

[Catspaw]

Um, no, I really don't want to know....but how do the kids address their parents? Mommy Auntie, Uncle Daddy?

Some things are just to yukky for words.

[Delbert]

My sister kisses reeal good....Banjo's please....and a one and a two....(theme from deliverance starts here)

[beowolf]

Reply # 12 is probably what gave it away!!!-)