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  • 12 Bodies Discovered in Massachusetts Storage Unit

    Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley confirmed that authorities recovered twelve corpses from a storage unit in Weymouth, Massachusetts late Thursday.

    The bodies were found in Weymouth, which is situated about 13 miles southeast of Boston, after police found cremains of roughly 40 people in a different U-Haul storage unit the previous day in Somerville, which sits a little north of Boston. Both storage units were rented by former funeral director Joseph O’Donnell.

    Back in April, O’Donnell, 55, was arrested and charged with two counts of larceny after accepting a $12K advance from a family expecting a funeral, but then closed down his business, and ran off with the money. O’Donnell is presently being detained on those charges, and has plead not guilty. He goes before a judge on Friday.

    Prosecutors do not believe any of the bodies found died in a violent manner. It is evident that O’Donnell was plainly stashing corpses for financial gain, and authorities are presently working to identify the remains of those found.

    Conley said, “Our top priority right now is determining the identity of the remains we’ve discovered. We’ve seized records and documents that could help us locate those people’s families, but this will be a time- and labor-intensive task.”

    O’Donnell had been operating a O’Donnell and Mulry Funeral Home in Dorchester, Massachusetts without a license since 2008, and is being held on a $10K bail.

    Anyone with concerns about funerals or cremations that were conducted by O’Donnell should contact the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office at 617-619-4010.

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  • Bodies Found In Lake Could Solve 2 Decades-Old Mysteries

    The skeletal remains of six people were found submerged in two cars at the bottom of Foss Lake in Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon, and authorities believe they may be a group of teenagers who disappeared in the early ’70s.

    The Oklahoma Highway Patrol discovered the cars–a blue 1969 Chevrolet Camaro and a 1950s-era car–while testing new sonar equipment on the lake, which is located in a remote area. Only one of the bodies has been identified at this time, but officials aren’t releasing any names until the families have been notified. However, there is reason to believe the remains in the Camero belong to Sayre High School students Jimmy Allen Williams 16, Thomas Michael Rios, 18, and Leah Gail Johnson, 18; the group disappeared in November of 1970 and Williams’ car–a blue Camero–was never found.

    Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said that the clues the other car can yield may put to rest another mystery that he’d always believed was just a rumor.

    “In 1973, I worked for Beckham and Custer County as a state trooper, and I heard rumors that sometime in the early ’60s there were two or three people in a car, and they were last seen in Canute,” Peoples said. “They were headed for Foss Lake and never seen again.”

    Officials say the teenagers had reportedly been on their way to a football game that November when they disappeared; as for the other car, it is not known where the group was from or how they came to be submerged in the lake several years before the other car. Anyone with possible information is urged to call (580) 323-1616.