Wednesday, December 5

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SoFlo: THE QUICK & THE DEAD (5#) -

Some local news stories
currently making the rounds . . .

# A Grave Mixup: Misplaced body found in wrong grave. *The remains were found in a plot reserved for relatives by a Homestead man, who was buried in 2001 one plot over.*

# Blown Away: Fernando Reina was using an ATM Monday morning when a man wearing a Halloween mask demanded his money. He then fatally shot Reina point-blank in the chest before running away.

# Surprise Gift: A decomposing corpse found in the bedroom closet of a house was the victim of a homicide, police said Tuesday... The home owner found the body Monday after discerning a foul smell.

# With a coupe as a coffin: A skeleton was found in a car pulled from a canal. A set of bones was discovered inside a silver Mercedes coupe that spent years submerged in a canal near the Broward County line... "Bianchi said this stretch of the Hillsborough Canal is a common dumping ground for stolen cars and trucks. The sheriff's office reported pulling about 27 cars out of the water so far today, Bianchi said."

:: "an effort to solve one mystery led to another"
-- By Michael LaForgia, PBPost --

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