Kapua
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Someone mentioned basements yesterday. I hesitate to post this. The first part is relevant, but gross, and somewhat OT. Fair warning.
I had a recent conversation with a friend’s husband at a social event. He is a former police officer who was once a detective. He said that when you become a detective, you get a huge file of cold cases. Then he recounted the most memorable cold case that he’d ever worked on. He was briefly interviewed about it for a TV show – can’t remember the name of it. Anyway, the case involved the disappearance of a young man from a blended family. His stepfather hated him, but claimed that he had no idea what happened to him when he went missing without a clue. More than 15 years later, the people who purchased the home that the family had lived in were doing some work that required them to go into the crawlspace under the house. The person who went down there saw a tennis shoe poking out of the dirt and pulled on it. It was connected! Family members were asked if they smelled anything unusual at the time, and they said yes, but they thought that an animal had died under the house. Eventually, the smell went away. Anyway, they dug up the entire kitchen floor (access to the crawlspace was via a trapdoor under the pantry) recovered the body, found that the young man had been shot, and arrested the stepfather. The bullet recovered was a solid match for his gun. He was tried and convicted.
Locals: Please check your basements and report any unusual smells (there or elsewhere).
I had a recent conversation with a friend’s husband at a social event. He is a former police officer who was once a detective. He said that when you become a detective, you get a huge file of cold cases. Then he recounted the most memorable cold case that he’d ever worked on. He was briefly interviewed about it for a TV show – can’t remember the name of it. Anyway, the case involved the disappearance of a young man from a blended family. His stepfather hated him, but claimed that he had no idea what happened to him when he went missing without a clue. More than 15 years later, the people who purchased the home that the family had lived in were doing some work that required them to go into the crawlspace under the house. The person who went down there saw a tennis shoe poking out of the dirt and pulled on it. It was connected! Family members were asked if they smelled anything unusual at the time, and they said yes, but they thought that an animal had died under the house. Eventually, the smell went away. Anyway, they dug up the entire kitchen floor (access to the crawlspace was via a trapdoor under the pantry) recovered the body, found that the young man had been shot, and arrested the stepfather. The bullet recovered was a solid match for his gun. He was tried and convicted.
Locals: Please check your basements and report any unusual smells (there or elsewhere).
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