Wednesday, June 1, 2011

California Woman Spotted Taking Trash Can of Body Parts to the Curb


NY Daily News - A California woman caught wheeling a trashcan full of body parts was arrested on Monday on charges of homicide. Carmen Montenegro, 51, of San Bernardino, Calif. was spotted with the macabre container around 2:30 in the afternoon and nabbed by police who were tipped off to her bizarre activities." Officers stopped her leaving the location and in the trashcan we found human remains," Detective Jeff Crittenden told KTLA-TV. One neighborhood resident's daughter told a KTLA-TV reporter she is Montenegro's cousin, and that the woman came to the home for help disposing the body. Other residents said Montenegro's mother lives in the home, and that Montenegro herself lived there sporadically for over a decade. The body is believed to have been dug up from the yard of the house where Montenegro was first spotted, according to police.

When asked what she was doing by police, Carmen replied; "I'm sorry officers, is this wrong? Is this frowned upon? Because if it is, I would have never done it, it's just that where I come from, people do this all the time."

Ok, Ok, there is no truth to that quote, but I imagine her defense won't be much different.  When you come from a country with so many mass graves that you recently had to start leasing land from neighboring Guatemala just to store the bodies, this may seem common place.