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backtoblue

(11,765 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 10:27 PM Jul 2019

Grocery store employee missing for 10 years found behind store's cooler


Grocery store employee missing for 10 years found behind store's cooler

By Allen Kim, CNN
Updated at 4:15 AM ET, Tue July 23, 2019

(CNN) — Workers removing shelves and coolers from a former No Frills Supermarket in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in January discovered a body behind one of them.
The remains were recently identified as those of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, a former employee who had been reported missing November 28, 2009.
Investigators used his parents' DNA to confirm the identity, and the clothes matched the description of his attire at the time he was reported missing, according to Council Bluffs Police Capt. Todd Weddum.
Murillo-Moncada's parents reported their son missing after he became upset and ran out of their home. They told police at the time that he was acting irrationally, possibly because of medication he was taking, Weddum said.

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Grocery store employee missing for 10 years found behind store's cooler (Original Post) backtoblue Jul 2019 OP
Sad story, at least his family has closure now. yonder Jul 2019 #1
So much for their GP6971 Jul 2019 #2
Council Bluffs newspaper article jxla Jul 2019 #3
How in holy hell did nobody noticed 175 pounds of rotting meat? krispos42 Jul 2019 #4
You would think the smell would draw attention liberal N proud Jul 2019 #5

jxla

(230 posts)
3. Council Bluffs newspaper article
Wed Jul 24, 2019, 01:45 AM
Jul 2019
https://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/body-found-in-vacant-no-frills-that-of-man-missing/article_12110290-ac94-11e9-9b7f-6bc33a504954.html

On Nov. 28, 2009, Murillo-Moncada’s parents reported him to be missing after he became upset and ran out of their home; he was 25 years old at the time of that report. Murillo was employed at No Frills Supermarket at the time of his disappearance. The autopsy indicated no signs of trauma to Murillo-Moncada, police said.

Shortly after his disappearance in 2009, Murillo-Moncada’s mother, Ana Moncada, told The Daily Nonpareil he went to work on Thanksgiving night; and, when he returned home on the morning of Nov. 27, he seemed disoriented. She took him to see a doctor, who prescribed an anti-depressant. He continued to feel disoriented and began to hear voices, she said.

“He was hearing voices that said ‘eat sugar,’” said Maria Stockton, a friend who served as translator for his mother, said in 2009. “He felt his heart was beating too hard and thought if he ate sugar, his heart would not beat so hard.”


In speaking to former employees of No Frills, it was common for workers to be on top of the coolers, as the space was utilized for storage of goods, police said. Investigators believe that Murillo-Moncada went to the store after leaving his home and climbed on top of the coolers, where he fell into an approximate 18-inch gap between the back of the cooler and a wall, getting trapped.

At the time of his disappearance, he was reportedly last seen wearing a Navy blue hooded sweatshirt and light blue sweat pants. He was described as 5-feet, 5-inches tall and weighed 140 pounds.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
4. How in holy hell did nobody noticed 175 pounds of rotting meat?
Wed Jul 24, 2019, 04:15 PM
Jul 2019

Okay, yeah, I can understand he falls off the back, hits his head, and then dies. Tragic accident, aided by a medication reaction.

But then there was weeks of decay!

This is just gross.

liberal N proud

(61,000 posts)
5. You would think the smell would draw attention
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 10:33 AM
Jul 2019

Unless they already had a rotting smell in the air.

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