Grisly Image Hangs Over Trial: Father's Corpse Left Untouched for Years

[Louisiana1976]

Within the pages of evidence scheduled to be presented this week during the second-degree murder trial of Lon Adams is a macabre crime scene photo of the victim, his father, Leroy Adams Sr., whose body decomposed in a bed undisturbed for more than two years at his Metairie home.

Jurors will view the elder Adams' final repose: his skeleton, clothed in a T-shirt, shorts and mismatched socks, lying curled in a fetal position with hands up near his exposed skull, the rest of him covered by a light blue blanket.

By trial's end, jurors must decide whether Lon Adams, 59, succumbed to post-Katrina stress, as well as grief, when he failed to report the death of his father and mentally blocked out any association with the upstairs bedroom that had become Leroy Adams' tomb. Or if, as authorities contend, he mortally wounded his 81-year-old father one night, put him in bed and then never checked on him again.

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[exboyfil]

1. I am the first to say it

A take off on "A Rose for Emily". While not Mississippi it is in the neighboring Southern state.

[stevedeshazer]

2. It just goes on and on.

Still finding bodies.

NOLA deserves much better.