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Nov. 29, 2023, 7:00 p.m. ET
A now-fired safety guard was arrested Tuesday for allegedly having intercourse with a 79-year-old girl’s corpse inside an Arizona hospital morgue after he was caught within the act by colleagues, based on experiences.
Randall Bird was hit with a number of prices after police launched an investigation late final month into the sickening allegations that took place contained in the Banner University Medical Center morgue in Phoenix.
While the 46-year-old’s job is barely to carry useless our bodies to the morgue and slip them into the freezer, Bird was caught together with his belt off, zipper down and his uniform wanting “messy,” on Oct. 22, based on courtroom docs obtained by information shops.
The different employees additionally noticed Bird “sweating profusely” and “acting very nervous” whereas within the freezer, CBS 5 reported, citing the docs.
The elderly girl’s physique bag was additionally unzipped and he or she was face down with Bird’s belt on high of the gurney the place the physique was, the paperwork alleged.
When safety personnel walked in, he shortly tried to cowl the lady’s physique earlier than claiming he had a medical episode, main him to seize the sufferer’s physique as he handed out and fell to the ground, the docs mentioned.
He insisted the physique bag tore and the zipper broke because of this, which the employees didn’t consider and reported him to their supervisors.
Bird was interviewed by police a number of days later, once more claiming he had a medical episode and couldn’t bear in mind what occurred.
But investigators decided his DNA was left on the scene, and accidents have been discovered on the lady’s physique, based on the paperwork additionally reported on by ABC 15.
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,” hospital officers mentioned in a press release, per experiences,
“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.”
Bird was terminated and is dealing with 5 counts of crimes towards a useless person, that are felonies.
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