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Kept corpses, frozen stiffs and a funeral director doubling up as a ‘body broker’

KITCHEN CADAVER Police turned up at the house of David McMichael, 67, in east Texas to carry out a welfare check on his son Jason after a neighbour had expressed concern about him; they asked if McMichael knew why they were there, and he said that it was because he had a body in his kitchen. He then led them to the skeletal remains of his son, telling them that he had died four years earlier and he had kept the body ever since. He did not explain how Jason had died, so police took the body to the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas to confirm its identity and to attempt to determine whether he had been murdered, or, if not, what the cause of death was. McMichael…

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