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Stuart G

(38,357 posts)
Wed May 15, 2019, 06:02 PM May 2019

Half-naked husband busted with wife's body strapped upside-down in car: cops

NO, I DID NOT MAKE THIS UP....

You thought you had seen it all, read this. New York Post, May 15, 1:24PM :

https://nypost.com/2019/05/15/police-provide-more-details-on-man-busted-with-dead-wife-in-car/

The Oklahoma man arrested while driving with his dead wife’s body was wearing only his underwear — and apparently positioned the woman’s body upside-down in the passenger seat, police said.

Police in Eloy stopped Rodney Puckett, 70, on Monday after he was spotted outside a Carl’s Jr. restaurant near Interstate 10, southeast of Phoenix. An employee told a responding detective that two people had just pulled up to pick up their food while naked, police said in an updated statement released Tuesday.

“The position of the woman caused immediate concern because she laying with her head on the floorboard and her legs towards the headrest,” police said.

Puckett, who was wearing only his skivvies, told police that his 74-year-old wife, Linda, died while they were staying at a hotel in El Paso, Texas, and that he loaded her body onto a luggage cart before putting it into the couple’s car to continue on their trip.

“When Rodney was unable to wake Linda, he loaded her onto a luggage cart and then placed her in his vehicle,” the statement continued. “It is not clear what his intentions were at this point.”

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Half-naked husband busted with wife's body strapped upside-down in car: cops (Original Post) Stuart G May 2019 OP
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... htuttle May 2019 #1
So many questions. YIKES! dewsgirl May 2019 #2
This one takes the cake, or the pizza, or whatever. But I get it, remember this: Stuart G May 2019 #3
Yes, quite sad actually. I lived in Dayton, Oh with my sister dewsgirl May 2019 #4
He just wanted to take his beloved wife home and bury her. That is true love no matter how you look juxtaposed May 2019 #5
An initial exam of the woman's body revealed minor blunt force trauma Kaleva May 2019 #7
kinky.... dhill926 May 2019 #6

Stuart G

(38,357 posts)
3. This one takes the cake, or the pizza, or whatever. But I get it, remember this:
Wed May 15, 2019, 06:13 PM
May 2019

Today, in the U.S.A. there are about 325,000,000 people. But when awful things happen, many people do not know what to do. This man and his wife were in another state when this happened. Obviously, this man lost his sanity after his wife's death.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
4. Yes, quite sad actually. I lived in Dayton, Oh with my sister
Wed May 15, 2019, 06:22 PM
May 2019

for a year, right after I graduated HS in 1995. There was a man that would drive around with a female mannequin everywhere he went, I obviously always wondered and still do what the story was, then Lars and the Real Girl came out and I thought maybe it was a similar story. This made me think of that, although very different.
Poor man, I hope he gets the help he needs and they don't throw him in jail or similar. I no longer trust the police to do the right thing unfortunately.

 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
5. He just wanted to take his beloved wife home and bury her. That is true love no matter how you look
Wed May 15, 2019, 06:24 PM
May 2019

at it.

Kaleva

(36,145 posts)
7. An initial exam of the woman's body revealed minor blunt force trauma
Thu May 16, 2019, 11:23 PM
May 2019

"An initial exam of Linda Puckett’s body revealed “minor blunt force trauma,” police said. The woman’s cause and manner of death are still pending and require additional testing that could take anywhere from six and 12 weeks, a spokeswoman for the Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office told The Post on Wednesday."

https://nypost.com/2019/05/15/police-provide-more-details-on-man-busted-with-dead-wife-in-car/

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