surprise_i'm_armed wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:53 pm 1. Per one of the above comments: the police responded but didn't find the body. IMHO, it's not the police's job to sort through an apparent hoarder's junk pile. The homeowner himself told them it would take a while to look through his junk.
2. The body might have been easy to miss upon initial visual inspection. Methinks it was an olfactory-related signature that led the homeowner to find the perp. People get pretty fragrant when they have taken the room temperature challenge (hats off to John Correia of ASP).
3. Some years ago there was 1 or more college men who died when they fought with a beverage dispensing machine and it fell on top of them, killing them. Darwin Award winners all.
SIA
" Possible burglary" does not create a forensic team response. All they had to go on was the home owners word, that " maybe" someone had broken into a cluttered garage. Evidently, even the homeowner, could not determine if anything had been taken, with a cursory look.
No conspiracy here, "brain damaged" theif, tries to steal a bigger safe than he could carry.
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