This story is about a woman that befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car. The story starts out interestingly kind. The woman felt sorry for the homeless woman and didn’t want her to have to sleep out on the street. The problem with this was that the homeless woman died in her car. To worsen things the woman didn’t report this to the authorities, instead she chose to leave the body in her car and drive around it with the stench of a rotting corpse for 10 months.
When I first read this story I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that this lady was crazy enough to leave this body in her car. What more is how could she stand the smell? The report did state that the woman had placed a box of backing soda in the car to help with the smell. I for one couldn’t imagine that the baking soda actually did much for the smell. I don’t think that backing soda could stop the stench of rotting tuna salad let alone a dead body. I also wonder how it was that for ten months nobody around her noticed a dead body in her car. I mean not the neighbors, not people at the grocery store, not anybody. The only people to notice were police that were responding to a call and could smell the body and then went to investigate. I can’t say what it is like in Costa Mesa were this all happened but I imagine that you couldn’t get around with a dead body in your car for ten months here in Joplin, MO. At least I hope not. I hope that if this woman isn’t charged for any wrong doing that they at least get her some help or counseling. As far as the homeless woman that died I’m guessing that she probably died in her sleep and it was a peaceful death for her so that is good.
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