Supermarket Ignores Rotten Smell.. 10 Years Later, They Find an Employee's Body

A body was found at a supermarket behind a freezer that was shut down many years ago. When police got the description of the body, they knew who it belonged to, and confirmed the identity with a DNA test right away. Why was the body left there for years? And why was it hidden? Let’s get into it.

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[sairi_a]

Imagine being one of the customers who left those complaints in the reviews learning 10 years later that the smell they were complaining about was a decomposing body.

[haileybalmer]

I worked at a grocery store that decided to lose business over rancid smells. In our case, we knew what the problem was, namely that the floor drains in the meat department would back up onto the floor and flood that department with rancid meat bits, juices, and fish blood that had fallen into the drain. It smelled awful. It smelled like a slaughter house. The customers would ask about it, and we were encouraged to lie about it. They'd literally rather lose customers and risk being shut down instead of pay to fix the problem. This wasn't a place like No Frills, either, this was a top of the line grocery store that was exclusively for rich people. Think Whole Foods, but independent and somehow even more expensive. The owner would come in with his new Ranger Rover and show off his rolexes and alligator shoes and brag about his ski chalet in Aspen, but we couldn't afford to fix the standing animal sludge in the meat department. Or raises. Ever. For anyone.

So yeah, I absolutely believe a grocery store ignored the smell of a decomposing employee. I think that kind of attitude is less abnormal than people seem to think.

[The.Nasty.]

It’s mind blowing that instead of investigating the source of a chronic rancid smell in a grocery store, said grocery store would rather lose business until they’re forced to close… absolute madness.

Literally just moving some freezers is too much of an ask.

[NeroBaelside]

I work at a walmart and for 5 weeks the chip aisle smelled absolutely rancid. Customers were even constantly complaining and trying to get out of the aisle as fast as possible. None of the managers seemed to care. One actually went down the aisle and sniffed around and told us he didn't smell anything and to focus on stocking. My coworker Mitch eventually found a package of raw chicken rotting buried in with some of the bags of chips. I had honestly expected it to be a dead rat. But my point is yeah, I can see this happening more than once. Management will ignore smells that could lead to the discovery of a rotting corpse for sure

[Myonexis]

The back of a freezer is warm so I can't imagine the stench that would have made. It's wild to me that no one ever decided to investigate.

[akumuryuu]

"What they were doing on top of the freezer". Well... investigating the stench, no? It's the most obvious excuse to make.

[qynoi]

Psychosis is such a beast. Unfortunately, there are just too many stories of people experiencing psychosis just wandering away and suffering terrible fates. I'm just glad it didn't claim my friend or aunt.

[wmdkitty]

Human decomp is a very distinct odor, it'd be hard to mistake it for anything else. I have no idea how everyone just... hand-waved the odor away as, "eh, rotten food."

[tourmii]

the way people describe the smell of a decomposing body i just can't fathom how that place stayed open for 7 years with his body just rotting in there

[UmatsuObossa]

Considering he was having massive craving for sugar, I wonder if he was having a severe hypoglycemic attack. They can make some people hallucinate and experience delusions and be severely agitated.

[criminalbird]

*How* did they stand the smell? Even a dead mouse behind a furniture smells awful. And in that case it's a human body!

[taotaoliu]

Employee 1: You smell something strange?
Employee 2: Hmm, maybe the apples are rotten.
Employee 1: Yeah, that’s probably it.

[ARGY]

Imagine how many other bodies in this world that are rotting away or a skeleton that still haven't been found in 5, 20 or even up to 100 years. Its scary and at the same time sad.

[JK-gmkk]

Cant imagine being the parents. Freakin brutal

[Shthophyckq]

If they hadn't demolished the shop, the archeologists some thousand years later would be really confused.

[Frozenwaffle]

What's crazy to me is the employees kept using the hideout. They would rather deal with the smell of a decaying body than work.

[kylehogan]

As the son of a schizophrenic; on set illness in very much a thing. know your warning signs and show love and care in the face of aggravation and fear. mental health knowledge is so important and can save lives

[twocvbloke]

The fact the store managers just shrugged off the complaints of a foul smell in a specific area is bad enough if it were something like stock having gotten dropped and lost, but for it to be ignored because there's a dead man back there, they should live the rest of their lives with that fact tattooed on their foreheads, it's horrific to think that people could literally smell something was wrong, and nothing was done to investigate, profit over people...

[winglessbat]

The back of freezers are warm, just like the back of most cooling appliances, the scent of rotting, cooking/burning meat would be impossible to ignore, im 99% sure the boss probably knew and could also smell the decomposition of something behind the freezers, but since moving them would cost effort, money and time they simply decided to let the smell go on. Literally choosing profits over people even if that means slowly coming closer to closing down which is what ultimately happened.

[benmcreynolds]

The workers just had to mention there's a ungodly smell coming from that area. They had a employee go missing. (they knew of the secret break spot but didn't need to say that but it should have influenced them to bring up the smell to their boss)