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Seven months later they ship Charles' corpse back home

posted 9 years ago by imbluzclooby
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This has got to be the saddest and most horrifying aspect of this story. Having to go through this gut-wrenching ordeal of searching for your missing son/husband, you finally are dealt the heavy blow of his death. Anger, sadness and despair ensue, but at least there is closure. And with time closure can help the bereaved deal with sorrow and go on with their lives. It can take months or even years. Some never get over it emotionally.

But after 7 months and returning home, then, to add injury to insult, his corpse is sent back home in a wooden box. How horrifying that must be. What are they supposed to do with his decomposed remains? It's too horrifying to look at and it is way to sad to have to deal with it.

To me, that was one of the saddest endings I ever saw in a movie.

[–] felipefuentes-40238 9 years ago

The body in that wooden box wasn't Charles Horman's. DNA tested negative. Charles Horman's remains were never found.

[–] imbluzclooby 8 years ago

Thanks for the valuable input, troll. Very enlightening.

[–] jaynekranc 8 years ago

What's the trolling? What the other poster said was true.

[–] mulholland_empire 8 years ago

i was under the impression that after all that time an accurate autopsy was not able to be performed because of the decomposition.

So i dnt think we will ever know if it was his body or not.

[–] jaynekranc 8 years ago

No, the wife did DNA testing when the better technology became available. The body was not that of her husband. Her name was actually Joyce, not Beth, so that's what you have to search for if you're looking for information on the case.

[–] mulholland_empire 8 years ago

very interesting stuff!, thanks for the info. ill have to look this up.

an they had the nerve to charge $931.14 (plus tax lmfao) to ship back a body that wasn't even the right one.

Damn