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Alaskan woman drove for days with husband’s body in ‘rolling wake

July 25, 2016 By: Stephen Dietrich

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A woman who drove her husband’s body on a days-long traveling wake in Alaska and used ice from canneries to keep him cold is not accused of breaking any laws.

Officers responded to a call last week to find the body of a 78-year-old man inside an aluminum transport casket.

Ketchikan Police Chief Alan Bengaard told the Ketchikan Daily News that the woman stopped at canneries for ice to put in the truck bed during the “rolling wake.”

The man had died of natural causes.

A mortuary took custody of the body after the authorities were called.

The family can make further arrangements.

Bengaard said hopefully the woman won’t take her husband back out on the road, but that he wasn’t aware of any laws she had broken.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.  

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Stephen Dietrich

Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.

Comments

  1. mary says

    July 26, 2016 at 1:28 am

    Sounds like the movie “Bad Grandpa” where he travels around the country with his dead wife’s corpse.

  2. Texas Belle says

    July 26, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    What was the point? Sounds a little loony.

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