WTF?

[shoreman]

Deputies find empty casket, look for owner

Monday, June 26, 2006 7:10 AM CDT

http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2006/06/26/news/state/20060626_arizona_news_35.txt

TUCSON(AP) -- Sheriff's deputies in Pima County discovered an empty casket with a military seal on the south side of Tucson Saturday.

Detectives believe the casket may have recently contained the remains of a military member, Deputy Dawn Barkman said Sunday.

"Obviously it had the smell and there was other evidence that it had been inhabited recently," Barkman said. Forensic investigators took DNA samples and are beginning efforts to try to find where the casket came from.

Deputies were called to a desert area near Interstate 10 around 5:30 p.m. Saturday after two people playing paintball found the casket, Barkman said. She said the casket was metallic silver with a U.S. Army insignia on it.

Deputies didn't find any signs of the body and put out a nationwide alert in hopes of learning more, Barkman said.

"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."

[Rozz]

WTF is right!!!!!!!!!:firedevil

[Fenlore]

dammit, the necrofiliacs are out and about... Someone better find and detain Ben.

[xrayzebra]

That is SO-o-o NOT right.

[Iceman]

"Obviously it had the smell and there was other evidence that it had been inhabited recently," Barkman said.

Aye, that's sick.......

[Clydetz]

Deputies find empty casket, look for owner...

Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:23 AM CDT (Update)

Deputy Barney Fife is pretty sure the inhabitant of the casket couldn't have gotten far by himself. Deputy Fife told this reporter... "There had to be someone else involved to help with the escape. I just have a feeling about this case."
Another deputy... Deputy Dawg has been called into the case and has indicated he will be on the scene shortly to 'sniff around' for more clues in this baffling situation.

[Planterz]

I haven't seen any zombies walking around...

[Grim-Sniper]

Oh hell No!

Oh that isn't right at all!

I have heard though that certain cultural backgrounds have attempted to defeat the wishes of our soldiers who wish to be buried with full militatry honors, and the families being highly up-set that the dead want to be buried with military uniform and honors and not in some religious rob, costume, and religious burial customs etc......

SAD, I say Sad

[shoreman]

Abandoned Arizona casket mystery solved

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/27/empty.casket.ap/index.html

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.

Deputies were called to the desert area near Interstate 10 Saturday after two people playing paintball found the casket, which was metallic silver with a U.S. Army insignia on it.

Forensic investigators then took DNA samples and began efforts to try to find where the casket came from.

Mortuary employees contacted authorities Sunday after seeing news accounts about the discovery.

No information was given on who had been buried in the casket.

Deputy Dawn Barkman, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff's Office, said the casket was taken to a landfill after the body was exhumed in late May.

Someone took it from the landfill, then dumped it, he said.

[Planterz]

The papers the past couple days said the same thing. Today they'd ID'd the former occupant, a soldier who died of natural causes, who was exhumed for cremation. The coffin was disposed of at a landfill, and somebody jacked it and left it somewhere else.