Woman reported man was abused at home for mentally disabled
Source: Associated Press
Updated 6:34 pm, Thursday, April 27, 2017
FULTON, Mo. (AP) — The former guardian for a central Missouri man who police believe was recently found dead in a concrete-encased container said she once called an abuse hotline because she believed he was being mistreated at a home for the mentally disabled.
Mary Martin told The Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/2oQ4VVC ) she cared for Carl DeBrodie from his adolescent years into adulthood. She said DeBrodie was mentally disabled and legally blind, and the courts rejected her and her husband's attempts to adopt him after he became an adult.
DeBrodie was reported missing from the Second Chance Home in Fulton on April 17, but he likely had been missing for months before the home reported that he walked away, Fulton Police Chief Steve Myers. DeBrodie had lived at the facility in Fulton for nine years.
Investigators found a body this week inside a cement-covered container in a dumpster at a storage unit in Fulton, about 100 miles (about 161 kilometers) west of St. Louis. Authorities believe it is DeBrodie's body, though a positive identification hasn't been made. A jackhammer was used to break up the concrete.
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