Posted on 06/26/2006 5:34:54 AM PDT by cbkaty
TUCSON, ARIZ. - An empty casket with a military seal was discovered in a desert area south of Tucson, and sheriff's deputies were looking for the body.
ADVERTISEMENT "Obviously it had the smell, and there was other evidence that it had been inhabited recently," Deputy Dawn Barkman said Sunday.
Forensic investigators took DNA samples, and a nationwide alert was issued in hope of finding out who was the casket, Barkman said.
Deputies were called to a desert area near Interstate 10 Saturday after two people playing paintball found the casket. The casket was metallic silver with a U.S. Army insignia on it.
"We have a lot of cemeteries, but it could be from anywhere," Barkman said. "Right now we don't have any concrete information where it came from."
Where's there? I'm thinking it was shipped back from Central America/Mexico. Some paper work showing an active duty death from natural causes, being shipped to home town funeral parlor or some such thing. Dead cat gives a slight odor of death, maybe cause someone to not consider opening it. Just a thought, they'll do anything to get drugs in. $$$$$$
It was opened. That is how they know it was empty.
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- An empty casket with a military seal discovered in the desert was discarded by a mortuary after the deceased's family requested that the body be exhumed and cremated, authorities said...
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