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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: juslight on September 12, 2003, 04:53:36 AM
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Here is another example of the multi-cat maniac in action.
LINK (http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_3-T&oldflok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20030912%2F035580362.htm&sc=1110)
PHOENIX (AP) - A 75-year-old man stored his wife\'s body for nearly six years in his backyard, twisted and upside down in an old freezer, because he hoped she could someday be brought back to life, authorities said.
When police went to Edwin Rowlette\'s home after receiving a tip from his daughter, they found dozens of cats along with feces and urine inside the house. The backyard, where one of the daughter\'s friends discovered the body, was cluttered with garbage, debris, insulation and furniture.
Authorities found Marcia Lynn Rowlette\'s body packed in dry ice and insulation and stored along with the bodies of ten dead cats. Rowlette told police he used the cats for research.
Rowlette was arrested last week on a felony charge of crimes against the dead. Investigators are trying to determine if he legally acquired his wife\'s body from a funeral home and whether he submitted the proper documents.
``One of the areas that we\'re looking at is if he had committed a fraud in obtaining the body,\'\' said Prescott police Sgt. Michael Kabbel.
Prescott, a pine-studded town of about 33,000, is located 90 miles north of Phoenix.
Rowlette told police he was keeping his wife\'s body frozen in hopes that someday science could bring her back to life.
Marcia Rowlette was wheelchair-bound and lived in a nursing home before she died Dec. 15, 1997, of respiratory failure. The 38-year-old woman had a history of rheumatoid arthritis and musculoskeletal problems.
``She had a lot of congenital anomalies that made it difficult to do anything,\'\' said Karen Gere, medical investigator with the Yavapai County medical examiner\'s office.
After her death, Marcia Rowlette\'s body was transferred to a funeral home. The body was released to the McCandless Research and Development Foundation after Rowlette submitted documents showing his wife\'s body was being donated for scientific research.
Rowlette said he created the foundation in 1985 and bills it as an organization that supports scientific research and humanitarian causes. Police are investigating whether the foundation is legitimate.
The president of the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based cryonics facility said to be storing the body of baseball great Ted Williams said he was unfamiliar with Rowlette\'s organization.
Alcor Life Extension Foundation president Jerry B. Lemler also noted that cryonics is generally performed with liquid nitrogen, not dry ice, because liquid nitrogen is colder.
``I hate to be the one to burst the bubble on this man\'s dream,\'\' Lemler said. ``He had a dream that we share here at Alcor. But I don\'t think his methodology was very thought out.\'\'
09/12/03 03:55
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YIKES! That\'s creepy.
And what makes it more creepy is the part about his dead wife!
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Scientists have proven >2 cats = nutcase.
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Look at the age difference too, he\'s 75 she was 38 :eek:
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^ lol, i was just about to post that!
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how in the hell can someone live like that with garbage and cat
crap that just sick andhow in the hell did guy keep his wife body from smelling ,even know i like cat 12 is damn to many and has
anyone ever heard cleaning house just in case company come
over and who in their right mind would live with cat feces in their
house that is sick
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^^^^^huh?
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^^Ditto. But that guy is a nutcase for leaving his wife in the freezer. Wonder what\'s gonna happen to this guy.
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damn that is freaky, i cannot believe e though he would come up with the way to bring someone back to life..... what a weirdo
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Well hey, at least his wife isn\'t arguably the greatest baseball player ever. That\'d be a real shame!
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Originally posted by sabrina
how in the hell can someone live like that with garbage and cat
crap that just sick andhow in the hell did guy keep his wife body from smelling ,even know i like cat 12 is damn to many and has
anyone ever heard cleaning house just in case company come
over and who in their right mind would live with cat feces in their
house that is sick
*looks at sabrina\'s bithdate (17 april 1971), gets scared....:eek:*
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Uhh.. 30 sum years old and she doesnt know grammar..
Thats even more scary than the cat story!
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Could be kopkings long lost cousin.
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could be, but isnt...he he
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Originally posted by Spudz
Uhh.. 30 sum years old and she doesnt know grammar..
Thats even more scary than the cat story!
it sure are am bei havnt not feltid this scareded sinse 20 years before now
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creepy.. she died on my 17th birthday.