Spiky Bugger
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…this one is a doozy…way too long, but a doozy. Or is it “doozie?”
So, I knew this cop. He was a wild character, “a legend in his own time” kind of guy. We got along well and enjoyed tormenting each other. When I met him, he was recently divorced and more recently remarried, to another cop. I don’t know the details, but decisions were made…I don’t know by whom, but was later told that Wife #2 was the evil-doer who had cut off contact between my colleague and his family. (Of course, he was a big boy and even had a gun or several and I certainly couldn’t be told to cut off contact with MY kid…so I don’t know.) But he eventually became estranged from his first family, which included a son. There was no reconciliation before his death about 30 years ago.
The son had a daughter who, when in college, approached her late grandfather’s old co-workers, including me, asking for stories about the grandfather she was never allowed to have a relationship with. We connected; I told her “appropriate” stories; we went our separate ways. A year or two ago, we said hello again on Twitter.
Yesterday, I wrote and asked if the details I’m about to relate were true. She said, “Yep.” So…here:
Some of Wife #2’s out-of-state family members called police asking for a “welfare check” because they hadn't heard from her in a month or two. Cops arrived, spoke to Wife #2’s daughter (from a previous marriage), who lived in the same home, and noticed inconsistent answers to their questions and the telltale “strange odor.” They put daughter in the back seat of their car, got a search warrant, and found Wife #2‘s body in the freezer. No arrests were made at the time.
Assuming her death was not caused by someone, it’s not like there weren’t sufficient funds to properly deal with her remains. Wife #2 received benefits as my colleague’s pension beneficiary and her own retirement pension. The two pensions totaled about $230k per year, plus benefits. Makes a body wonder if those funds were direct deposits to an account the daughter had access to.
ANYWAY, if indeed Wife #2 was the evil-doer who caused my online friend to not know her grandfather, who died when the granddaughter was maybe five or six years old, how ironic that Wife #2’s daughter would decide to keep her mother “on ice,” literally and figuratively, for whatever bizarre reasons. And I hope my old buddy didn’t live his last days under the care of his step-daughter and her boyfriend, who also lived in the house. And I’m kinda glad that the granddaughter was, in fact, estranged from such lovely people.
I should have shared this story just BEFORE Halloween but I didn’t know about it.
So, I knew this cop. He was a wild character, “a legend in his own time” kind of guy. We got along well and enjoyed tormenting each other. When I met him, he was recently divorced and more recently remarried, to another cop. I don’t know the details, but decisions were made…I don’t know by whom, but was later told that Wife #2 was the evil-doer who had cut off contact between my colleague and his family. (Of course, he was a big boy and even had a gun or several and I certainly couldn’t be told to cut off contact with MY kid…so I don’t know.) But he eventually became estranged from his first family, which included a son. There was no reconciliation before his death about 30 years ago.
The son had a daughter who, when in college, approached her late grandfather’s old co-workers, including me, asking for stories about the grandfather she was never allowed to have a relationship with. We connected; I told her “appropriate” stories; we went our separate ways. A year or two ago, we said hello again on Twitter.
Yesterday, I wrote and asked if the details I’m about to relate were true. She said, “Yep.” So…here:
Some of Wife #2’s out-of-state family members called police asking for a “welfare check” because they hadn't heard from her in a month or two. Cops arrived, spoke to Wife #2’s daughter (from a previous marriage), who lived in the same home, and noticed inconsistent answers to their questions and the telltale “strange odor.” They put daughter in the back seat of their car, got a search warrant, and found Wife #2‘s body in the freezer. No arrests were made at the time.
Assuming her death was not caused by someone, it’s not like there weren’t sufficient funds to properly deal with her remains. Wife #2 received benefits as my colleague’s pension beneficiary and her own retirement pension. The two pensions totaled about $230k per year, plus benefits. Makes a body wonder if those funds were direct deposits to an account the daughter had access to.
ANYWAY, if indeed Wife #2 was the evil-doer who caused my online friend to not know her grandfather, who died when the granddaughter was maybe five or six years old, how ironic that Wife #2’s daughter would decide to keep her mother “on ice,” literally and figuratively, for whatever bizarre reasons. And I hope my old buddy didn’t live his last days under the care of his step-daughter and her boyfriend, who also lived in the house. And I’m kinda glad that the granddaughter was, in fact, estranged from such lovely people.
I should have shared this story just BEFORE Halloween but I didn’t know about it.
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