Man Takes Cross-Country Road Trip With Girlfriend's Corpse in the Passenger Seat

A man took a road trip from Arizona to Michigan with his girlfriend's corpse after she overdosed on drugs.

Let's just take this one from the beginning. According to Chicago's WJBK Fox 2, a 62-year-old man and his 92-year-old mother drove from Michigan to pick up his 31-year-old girlfriend from an Arizona mental health facility. While everything went fine on the trip there, the woman apparently overdosedonoxycodone while passing through Flagstaff on the return journey.

After several attempts to revive her between New Mexico and Oklahoma, the man finally determined that she had indeed died. Even so, he apparently looked up what to do with her corpse on the Internet, and somehow decided it would be best if he continued all the way back to his home state.

So that's what he did.

According to WJBK, he "propped her body up and placed sunglasses on her face and a stuffed animal in her lap." Throughout the 26 hour drive, the man's wheelchair-bound mother sat in the back seat unable to use a bathroom. To make things worse, the van's air conditioning was broken.

Only when the woman's mental hospital finally called him, did the man admit that she was deceased. Though they urged him to go to the ER, he refused. Police finally caught up with him as he pulled into the driveway of his son's house. Currently he is not in custody, however Macomb County, Mich. prosecutors are still deciding how to handle the case. 

"If you've ever smelled a dead body before—you never get that out of your head," a neighbor told WJBK. "As soon as the police opened the door, thank God there was a good breeze going because you would just get a whiff of it once and a while."

[via WJBK Fox 2]

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