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The Doclopedia #1,708
It’s In The Bag!: The Body Bag
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It had been a long night for Tony and Leon. They had done 3 car crashes, a shootout between two rival gangs and an old dude who had been sick a long time, but had apparently been suffocated by his wife. Busy night, for sure. At this rate, the morgue might have to start using the secondary cooler.
Tony and Leon had seen a lot of strange shit in their years driving the meatwagon, but this last one took the prize. According to the old farmer who had called it in to the cops, a “huge green monster” had fallen out of the sky and crashed in his back field. There was no doubt something had hit, because there was a 20 foot wide, 6 foot deep crater. The thing was, the body in the crater was no huge green monster, it was a normal looking guy.
The medical examiner couldn’t get to the scene, because one of those earlier accidents had stopped traffic for miles, but he told the cops on scene to just bag the body and bring it in. So, Tony went into the crater along with Leon and Sgt. Velasquez to get things done.
Velasquez told them that this was some strange shit, because the body looked unharmed and was still pretty warm. That creeped Leon out, but Tony said maybe the guy fell into the crater after it was made and died. Leon thought that sounded right.
The body was warm and showed no signs of rigor. It wasn’t breathing, so it must be dead, but damn, it was strange. The male was maybe 5’10”, 150 pounds, wearing no shoes and just a pair of purple pants that looked too large for him.
They slipped the body into the bag and carried it to the truck. Once it was inside, they went back to exchange paperwork with Velasquez. A few minutes later, they headed back to the truck and got ready to leave. As was his habit, Leon unzipped the body bag about 2 inches and put the paperwork, now inside a ziplock bag, halfway into it. Then they started heading back to the morgue.
They were taking a road through the country around town because traffic was still a nightmare. Leon was talking about buying donuts on his way home when, from behind them, they heard a body bag unzipping and a panicked male voice ask “Where the hell am I?”
That caused Tony to lose control, sending the truck into a ditch where it fell over on it’s side. Both Tony and Leon were knocked unconscious.
When they woke up about 5 minutes later, the body in the purple pants was gone. They spent the next several hours answering questions first from the cops, then the FBI, then some Army guys. Finally, there was a breaking news story on tv about some huge green monster in purple pants tearing up Dallas. At that point, the Army and the Feds left and the cops told Tony and Leon to go home. .
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The Doclopedia #1,709
It’s In The Bag!: The Tiny Silk Pouch
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In 1961 Reno Gibbons, a notorious jewel thief, stole the “Eye of Ishtar” diamond. The diamond was on display at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art and Reno took off with it at 12:14 in the morning on a Saturday night.
Unfortunately for him, his getaway car was not waiting for him. It seems his girlfriend, Nancy Oliver, had found out that he was goung to dump her and leave the country with the diamond. At 9:20 the previous evening, she had ratted him out to the cops.
Still, Reno got past the cops and into Golden Gate Park, where he eluded them for 3 hours. When he left the park and ran onto Fulton Street, he must have thought that he was going to get away. Sadly, he was his by a drunk driver and killed instantly. Four police officers saw the accident and were on the scene in seconds.
After an hour of searching Reno’s body, the drunk, his car and the area around the accident, the police had to admit that Reno did not have the diamond on his person when he left the park. He must have hidden it somewhere.
Over the next three weeks, the park was closed off to the public while hundreds of police officers, FBI agents, dogs, trackers and scientists searched for the diamond, or even the tiny blue silk pouch it was placed in each night. They never found either item.
When the park re-opened, the public swarmed in to hunt for the diamond, which had a 2 million dollar reward out. Despite several false alarms and a couple of hoaxes, the diamond was never found.
As of this writing, December 2109, 58 years have passed without anyone finding the diamond, or at least announcing they have. Despite using all of the latest technology of every decade, not a trace of that tiny silk bag and it’s contents has been found.
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