My roommate found a dead body in an RV this weekend

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Spent the weekend with these homies. Messed up situation, but one bright spot was that we got free drinks wherever we went.


http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...e-rv-20140502_1_rv-kentucky-derby-twin-cities

A Minnesota groom and 10 friends driving their RV to a bachelor party at Saturday's Kentucky Derby ended their trip abruptly after they stopped to pick up some friends, opened the storage bay, and found a corpse, authorities and the men said.

The men found the body late Thursday night in Winona, 118 miles southeast of Minneapolis, when they opened a compartment that was accessible only from the outside of the RV, the Anoka County Sheriff Department said in a statement.

Officials said investigators have not identified the deceased or determined the cause of death.

"We will not speculate on any factors at this time," the sheriff's department said in its statement.

One of the men told a CBS television affiliate in Minneapolis that the group began its trip in Anoka, north of the Twin Cities, then stopped to pick up some friends at a Shopko store in Winona. They found the body when they were looking for more storage.

"At first some of us thought maybe it was a joke ... someone playing a prank on the groom," Jake Wanek told the television station. "We quickly realized that was not the case."

The group called authorities, who confiscated their luggage and the RV after interviewing the men, Wanek said.

Wanek told the TV station the bachelor party will not make it to Churchill Downs for the 140th running of the famed horse race on Saturday.

Later, Wanek tweeted: "The last 24 hours takes the cake but this has been the most eventful, exciting, depressing, unbelievable, epic, terrible weeks of my life."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-smell-discovers-rotting-BODY-cargo-bin.html

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thats crazy op
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Article says they smelled an odor

The quote from the article doesn't say that. I didn't click the link.

The quote says that they found the body while looking for more storage.

I had the same question as you.

The Daily Mail article had this lede:
A group of friends riding in a rented RV en route to Kentucky Derby to celebrate a bachelor party this weekend made a gruesome discovery when they pulled over to investigate a foul odor.

I want OP to provide more info though
 
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OP, if you may answer these few questions please.

If the groom is your roommate, why weren't you present during the celebration? Id assume youre close, correct? Was it cause you knew of the events potential circumstances? Hmmm...

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damn, dude was addicted to drugs and missing since November too, this story is weird.
 
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Damn, I remember seeing that guy on the news back in Nov.

Meth debt probably got that boy killed. Meth and heroin here are becoming a real issue :smh:
 
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Where you gonna cook now OP?

You gonna hear it from Walt....


But RIP to the Dude, wonder what happened...
 
Damn, I remember seeing that guy on the news back in Nov.

Meth debt probably got that boy killed. Meth and heroin here are becoming a real issue :smh:

Damn this is crazy.

But yeah heroin especially. My guy I was looking to get a spot with at the time od'ed two years ago in the st Thomas dorms. We thought he was still clean.

Those cats out in Blaine and that area are on it hard. Young ones too. I don't know many meth users. Heroin is another story.
 
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