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Friday, August 12, 2011

Man Entombed For 27 Years In Chimney To Get Funeral

Bones, clothes fell on construction worker when he tugged on fabric

ABBEVILLE, La. — The narrow, brick chimney of a Louisiana bank became his tomb for 27 years and now Joseph Schexnider will be laid to rest Sunday in a proper grave with a proper farewell by his family.

Still, his brother Robert wonders, how did he wind up in that chimney? Didn't anyone hear any cries for help? Was it a robbery attempt gone awry, an accident or something more sinister?

"At least we know where he is now," Schexnider, 48, said, tears welling in his eyes ahead of his brother's funeral and burial. "At least he's home."

Nearly three decades after he disappeared, much mystery lingers about the case of Joseph Schexnider and involving a small town bank in the southern Louisiana city of Abbeville. Police say Schexnider became trapped and apparently died in the bank's chimney in 1984. But beyond that, they know little more.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 12, 2011 at 7:24 PM

    I am truly amazed that one could smell a body decaying.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 12, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    Must have smelled like beef jerkey.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM

    The idiot was trying to steal something. Why else would he take his gloves from him. I want to feel sorry for the clown, but I feel he got what he deserved.

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  4. lmclainAugust 13, 2011 at 1:28 PM

    How DOES one get "accidently" trapped in the chimney of a BANK (another coincidence)? He was just taking a walk around town and fell into the chimney? Some wind picked him up from his front yard and like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, deposited him far, far away in a chimney? Get real.

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