A morgue worker from Arizona was arrested after he was caught having intercourse with the lifeless physique of a 79-year-old girl. (Image: Shutterstock/Representative)
Randall Bird, a employee at a hospital in Arizona, was arrested after his coworkers caught him having intercourse with the lifeless physique of a septuagenarian.
A safety guard working in a morgue inside an Arizona hospital was arrested this week for allegedly having intercourse with a 79-year-old girl’s corpse. His colleagues caught him within the act, in line with a report by The New York Post.
Cops levelled a number of expenses towards Randall Bird after cops launched a probe late October into the allegations levelled towards Bird following the occasions that came about inside Phoenix’s Banner University Medical Center morgue.
The court docket paperwork obtained by the newspaper mentioned that Belt was discovered with his belt off, zipper down and his uniform trying “messy” on October 22. Bird’s job is restricted to bringing lifeless our bodies to the morgue and slipping them into the freezer.
His coworkers mentioned that they noticed Bird “sweating profusely” and “acting very nervous” whereas within the freezer. The physique bag of the aged girl was additionally unzipped and she or he was discovered mendacity face down with Bird’s belt on high of the wheeled stretcher used for transporting sufferers or lifeless our bodies in hospitals.
When different safety personnel walked in, Bird tried to cowl the lady’s physique rapidly earlier than claiming he suffered a medical episode main him to seize the sufferer’s lifeless physique as he handed out and fell to the ground.
Bird tried to argue that the physique bag tore and the zipper additionally broke because of the commotion. The employees didn’t imagine him and reported him to supervisors.
He repeated the identical story when he was interviewed by police a number of days later and mentioned he didn’t bear in mind what occurred. The investigators, nonetheless, decided that the Bird’s DNA was left on the scene. They additionally discovered accidents on the lady’s physique. The girl had reportedly died of pure causes.
“We are saddened and appalled by the alleged actions of an individual at Banner–University Medical Center Phoenix that resulted in his arrest on November 28, 2023. Banner Health has and remains committed to high standards that require each of our team members to treat everyone, at every stage of life, with compassion, dignity, and respect,” hospital officers mentioned in a press release.
Bird was terminated from his function and is at present going through 5 counts of crimes towards a lifeless particular person, all of that are felonies.
