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U-Haul workers find a human body wrapped in plastic and cardboard in the back of an abandoned rental truck
  • 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
Employees of the truck rental company U-Haul in California have made a gruesome discovery when they found a human body tightly wrapped in plastic and cardboard in the back of a vehicle that had been rented by someone and then abandoned on a street.

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.

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Anaheim police officers are pictured on the scene Wednesday investigating the discovery of a human body inside the trunk of a U-Haul truck

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U-Haul workers found the body tightly wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape (pictured on a stretcher)

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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.

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Someone had rented the truck in Anaheim and failed to return it. It was found abandoned on a street Wednesday morning

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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
 

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Yep. This will be easy to solve: U-Haul has copies of driver's licenses and they have cameras operating in store.

RIP to the deceased.
 

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It was rented, then abandoned. Someone had to rent it with a DL. More than likely the person who rented it, would be connected to the deceased person.

A paper trail has been started.

If the person who rented it didn't report it stolen then that's hella suspicious. Whilst were they thinking?
 

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If the person who rented it didn't report it stolen then that's hella suspicious. Whilst were they thinking?

I'm thinking the person who initially rented it, rented it for someone else. (Back in the day, I used to rent U-Hauls for people occasionally, if they did not have a credit card.)

I'm assuming the renter did not know the U-Haul had not been returned OR both the driver and the deceased met foul play. (shrug)
 

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I'm thinking the person who initially rented it, rented it for someone else. (Back in the day, I used to rent U-Hauls for people occasionally, if they did not have a credit card.)

I'm assuming the renter did not know the U-Haul had not been returned OR both the driver and the deceased met foul play. (shrug)

Damn, that's hella risky to rent to undocumented people.
 

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U-Haul workers find body of missing woman, 29, wrapped in plastic tarp, cardboard and duct tape in an abandoned rental truck - two months after she was last seen on a flight from Dallas to LA
  • Ashley Manning, 29, was discovered dead in a U-Haul truck on Wednesday
  • Manning's family reported her missing in November after she flew from Dallas to Los Angeles
  • Her body was found tightly wrapped in back of U-Haul moving truck that had been rented in Anaheim and then abandoned
  • U-Haul workers found the missing vehicle 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.
A body found tightly wrapped in plastic wrap, cardboard and duct tape inside an abandoned U-Haul at a storage facility in California was identified as a 29-year-old woman who's been missing for two months.

Authorities confirmed the deceased as Ashley Manning of Anaheim, whose family reported her missing in November after traveling from Texas to California.

The cause of death has not been disclosed as results from a toxicology report are pending.

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Ashley Manning (pictured) was identified by authorities as the deceased body found wrapped in plastic wrap, duct tape and cardboard in the back of an abandoned U-Hauk truck on Wednesday

According to a Facebook post from Manning's sister, the woman flew from Dallas/ Fort Worth International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on November 13.

'We have confirmation that she made it to LAX and are working with police to pull video footage to see what car she got into an run license plates,' Taylor Manning wrote.

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Manning (left and right) was reported missing by her family in November after she flew from Dallas to Los Angeles on the 13th

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A cause of death has not yet been determined by California authorities and they have not labeled the case as a homicide

After Manning was identified as the deceased, Taylor expressed her grief in a post addressing the revelation.

She wrote: 'It’s is with a very heavy heart that I share with everyone here that my sisters body was found on Wednesday afternoon. As a family we are trying to navigate this tragedy and this extremely hard time.'

'Hug your family members a little closer today, and please say a prayer for mine.'

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Taylor Manning: 'It’s is with a very heavy heart that I share with everyone here that my sisters body was found on Wednesday afternoon. As a family we are trying to navigate this tragedy and this extremely hard time'

U-Haul employees made the gruesome discovery on Wednesday when they found Manning's body in the back of a truck that had been rented then abandoned on a street.

Police officers were summoned to the scene near Orangethorpe Avenue and State College Boulevard in Fullerton 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.

23199498-7869419-image-a-24_1578583682113.jpg

Anaheim police officers are pictured on the scene Wednesday investigating the discovery of a human body inside the trunk of a U-Haul truck

23199486-7869419-image-a-25_1578583693032.jpg

U-Haul workers found the body tightly wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape (pictured on a stretcher)

23199484-7869419-image-a-26_1578583701467.jpg

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 identity, according to Sgt. Shane Carringer, of the Anaheim Police Department.

23199502-7869419-image-a-27_1578583712187.jpg

Someone had rented the truck in Anaheim and failed to return it. It was found abandoned on a street Wednesday morning

23199488-7877557-U_Haul_staff_towed_the_truck_to_this_storage_facility_in_Fullert-a-2_1578793199928.jpg

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.'

Body found by wrapped in plastic in the back of an abandoned rental truck is identified | Daily Mail Online
 

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