Court Room Smells Like Earth Day

An interesting tidbit I found on FARK today regarding a trial case in Louisiana. A guy murdered his girlfriend and stuffed her dismembered body in a trunk in New Orleans just before hurricane Katrina hit. Four years later they open the trunk up in court to show it as evidence. It stunk so bad the judge had to have the courthouse fumigated.

From WWL here:

New Orleans prosecutors are trying to convince a jury that a man killed his girlfriend, cut up her body, then stored it in a trunk that he kept with him for years. Years after the crime was discovered, the trunk that held the woman’s remains filled the courtroom with a foul odor.

The smell was so bad that Judge Julian Parker had to call in a janitorial crew to deodorize the courtroom.

John Morgan killed his girlfriend, who was last seen alive in 2002. They say he chopped up the body, and stuffed it in the trunk.

Morgan left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and left the trunk in his old apartment. The landlords found the foul-smelling trunk in the residence in October of 2005. Forensic experts identified the remains, and last year, police arrested Morgan in North Carolina. Now he faces life in prison in Angola if convicted.

I think opening a putrid trunk in court is a grand slam for the prosecution. How can a juror not recoil at this type of evidence?

I mentioned Eath Day in the title because the holiest day of Liberal Ecoworshippers was founded by a madman who did the same exact thing to his own girlfriend. Click here to see my previous post on the Unicorn Killer, founder of Earth Day.