CBS Sacramento:
Reporting Nick Janes
VALLEJO, California (CBS13) – Neighbors complained about the smell, and deputies would make the disturbing discovery of a body in the backyard.
It wasn’t just any body. It was a family member’s dad, and it had been decomposing for two years.
Now, two people are facing charges after investigators say a couple hid the corpse to collect cash.
By sheer coincidence there is a cemetery across the street from where the man’s remains were discovered. They were not in a grave, but in what investigators describe as a makeshift box. Detectives say the man’s own son is put him there, and he is accused of trying to hide his father’s death for two years.
When what was left of Richard Romer was discovered earlier this month, it was clear to deputies that he’d been dead for some time.
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Reporting Nick Janes
VALLEJO, California (CBS13) – Neighbors complained about the smell, and deputies would make the disturbing discovery of a body in the backyard.
It wasn’t just any body. It was a family member’s dad, and it had been decomposing for two years.
Now, two people are facing charges after investigators say a couple hid the corpse to collect cash.
By sheer coincidence there is a cemetery across the street from where the man’s remains were discovered. They were not in a grave, but in what investigators describe as a makeshift box. Detectives say the man’s own son is put him there, and he is accused of trying to hide his father’s death for two years.
When what was left of Richard Romer was discovered earlier this month, it was clear to deputies that he’d been dead for some time.
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