MAN STEALS DAD’S BODY FROM CEMETERY & TRIES TO BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE
Detroit police found the body of a 93-year-old man stuffed inside a freezer in his son’s basement — after investigators said the son stole the body and casket from a Detroit cemetery on Monday. WTH!
The body was in a new freezer in the basement, according to a police source. The man’s 48-year-old son reportedly told family members on Monday that he stole his father’s body from Gethsemane Cemetery on the city’s east side that morning to resurrect him through prayer.
Family members said tensions were high and declined further comment. The man’s funeral was Saturday, but his body was being held in the cemetery’s mausoleum because the ground was too wet for burial.
Witnesses saw a white van pull up outside the mausoleum just before the man and his casket went missing Monday morning. Officers found the empty casket about 7 a.m. Tuesday in a van parked at a gas station, and arrested a 48-year-old man and a 38-year-old man in the vehicle. Police didn’t identify the arrested men.
Next-door neighbor Gwendolyn Coleman, 50, said she has known the son for about five years. “He done lost it, for him to do something like that, take their father from the cemetery,” Coleman said. “That was wrong.”
She didn’t know the elder Bright. But she attended Saturday’s funeral to pay her respects to his son. “At the funeral, he said, ‘Y’all might think I’m great, y’all might think I’m great’ — everybody heard that at the funeral,” explained Coleman, standing in front of the now-boarded front door of the man’s home. “Then he said, ‘Watch what I’m going to do, watch what I’m going to do.’ Everybody heard that — the whole family, too. We didn’t think he was going to do nothing like that, though.”
Just after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Coleman said she heard banging and loud sounds coming from the man’s backyard.
“We heard noises over here and everything, around 1:30 or 2 o’clock in the morning, like there was a lot of people over here, and that was him,” Coleman said.
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The body was in a new freezer in the basement, according to a police source. The man’s 48-year-old son reportedly told family members on Monday that he stole his father’s body from Gethsemane Cemetery on the city’s east side that morning to resurrect him through prayer.
Witnesses saw a white van pull up outside the mausoleum just before the man and his casket went missing Monday morning. Officers found the empty casket about 7 a.m. Tuesday in a van parked at a gas station, and arrested a 48-year-old man and a 38-year-old man in the vehicle. Police didn’t identify the arrested men.
She didn’t know the elder Bright. But she attended Saturday’s funeral to pay her respects to his son. “At the funeral, he said, ‘Y’all might think I’m great, y’all might think I’m great’ — everybody heard that at the funeral,” explained Coleman, standing in front of the now-boarded front door of the man’s home. “Then he said, ‘Watch what I’m going to do, watch what I’m going to do.’ Everybody heard that — the whole family, too. We didn’t think he was going to do nothing like that, though.”
Just after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Coleman said she heard banging and loud sounds coming from the man’s backyard.
“We heard noises over here and everything, around 1:30 or 2 o’clock in the morning, like there was a lot of people over here, and that was him,” Coleman said.
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