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U-Haul workers find a human body wrapped in plastic and cardboard in the back of an abandoned rental truck
Police officers were summoned to the scene near Orangethorpe Avenue and State College Boulevard in Fullerton on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a report of a possible body found in the trunk of a U-Haul truck.
The vehicle had been rented in Anaheim and never returned.
Anaheim police officers are pictured on the scene Wednesday investigating the discovery of a human body inside the trunk of a U-Haul truck
U-Haul workers found the body tightly wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape (pictured on a stretcher)
The body, of which nothing is known as this time, was taken to a crime lab to be examined
U-Haul staff tracked down the missing truck to Santa Ana Canyon Road west of Gypsum Canyon in Anaheim just before 11am and towed it to a storage facility in Fullerton.
When workers opened the back of the vehicle to perform an inventory of its contents, they discovered a deceased person wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape, reported CBS Los Angeles.
The body was so tightly packaged that it was impossible to tell the gender, race or age of the deceased, let alone his or her name, according to Sgt. Shane Carringer, of the Anaheim Police Department.
Someone had rented the truck in Anaheim and failed to return it. It was found abandoned on a street Wednesday morning
U-Haul staff towed the truck to this storage facility in Fullerton, California, to perform an inventory of its contents
The human remains were then loaded into a coroner's van and transported to a crime lab along with the U-Haul truck to be examined.
'We are not calling it a homicide yet,' Carringer said. 'It’s obviously a suspicious death, and the circumstances in which the body was found are certainly suspicious, but we’re going to treat it as if it could potentially be a homicide.'
Carringer noted that even if the person in the vehicle did not die as a result of a homicide, other crimes may have been committed.
'It could be something much less nefarious than a homicide,' Carringer told KTLA5. 'It could just be a natural death in which the body was disposed of or stored improperly.'
U-Haul workers find body wrapped in plastic and cardboard in the back of an abandoned rental truck | Daily Mail Online
- Body was found tightly wrapped in back of U-Haul moving truck that had been rented in Anaheim, California, and then abandoned
- U-Haul workers found the missing vehicle on Wednesday and made the grisly discovery while doing inventory at a storage facility
- Police are investigating it as a suspicious death, but they are not calling it a homicide yet
Police officers were summoned to the scene near Orangethorpe Avenue and State College Boulevard in Fullerton on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a report of a possible body found in the trunk of a U-Haul truck.
The vehicle had been rented in Anaheim and never returned.
Anaheim police officers are pictured on the scene Wednesday investigating the discovery of a human body inside the trunk of a U-Haul truck
U-Haul workers found the body tightly wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape (pictured on a stretcher)
The body, of which nothing is known as this time, was taken to a crime lab to be examined
U-Haul staff tracked down the missing truck to Santa Ana Canyon Road west of Gypsum Canyon in Anaheim just before 11am and towed it to a storage facility in Fullerton.
When workers opened the back of the vehicle to perform an inventory of its contents, they discovered a deceased person wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape, reported CBS Los Angeles.
The body was so tightly packaged that it was impossible to tell the gender, race or age of the deceased, let alone his or her name, according to Sgt. Shane Carringer, of the Anaheim Police Department.
Someone had rented the truck in Anaheim and failed to return it. It was found abandoned on a street Wednesday morning
U-Haul staff towed the truck to this storage facility in Fullerton, California, to perform an inventory of its contents
The human remains were then loaded into a coroner's van and transported to a crime lab along with the U-Haul truck to be examined.
'We are not calling it a homicide yet,' Carringer said. 'It’s obviously a suspicious death, and the circumstances in which the body was found are certainly suspicious, but we’re going to treat it as if it could potentially be a homicide.'
Carringer noted that even if the person in the vehicle did not die as a result of a homicide, other crimes may have been committed.
'It could be something much less nefarious than a homicide,' Carringer told KTLA5. 'It could just be a natural death in which the body was disposed of or stored improperly.'
U-Haul workers find body wrapped in plastic and cardboard in the back of an abandoned rental truck | Daily Mail Online