'Popsicle' Corpse Left For Days
January 30, 2009[/align]
A frozen corpse was left lying in an abandoned US warehouse for two days after being discovered, despite three calls to police, it has emerged. A journalist from Detroit, Charlie LeDuff, said he raised the alarm after receiving an anonymous call from a man who said his friend had discovered a body in a disused lift shaft.
"He's encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks," the caller told Mr LeDuff. The reporter went to investigate, and discovered the two denim clad limbs of a man poking up through a block of ice inside the frozen building. He made an emergency call and was assured the body would be recovered.
However, the next day, the journalist said the body remained trapped in the ice. The journalist said he then made two more 911 calls, one of which was disconnected, before a fire department employee arranged a meeting to recover the body. The man who initially made the shocking find had reportedly been playing hockey with a group of friends in the building's frozen basement. After making the gruesome discovery, they continued their game without reporting the incident.
Detroit, once known as the US 'murder capital' struggles with a high crime rate, made worse by the record unemployment and home foreclosures the recession has brought. "When you hear somebody say it's a dead body near a train station, you say 'and?'" local resident Bianca Glenn said. The cause of the man's death or when he died is not yet known, but one theory is that he was overcome by the freezing temperatures after suffering a fall in the building.
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