{"id":921,"date":"2002-03-01T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=921"},"modified":"2002-03-01T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:51:00","slug":"man-marries-sister-keeps-sons-corpse-in-house-fathers-nine-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/01\/15\/51\/man-marries-sister-keeps-sons-corpse-in-house-fathers-nine-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Marries Sister, Keeps Son’s Corpse In House, Fathers Nine Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

And four grandchildren! Sibling couple Samuel Thomas Patrick (52) and Debra Lynn Patrick (44) kept a casket cont
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\nining the body of their infant son inside their remote home for 12 years. <\/a>The couple had apparently exhumed the body in secret years ago.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

The sister seems mentally unhinged, believes her dead son is somehow alive, and She was docile when investigators talked to her and didn’t seem to think anything was wrong about her relationship with <\/a>her brother … Their value system seems different from most people and it appears they were willing participants, he said.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Cops investigated after a tip that the weird couple were keeping the <\/a>corpse’s coffin in their living room<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They live in rural Glades County, a citrus-growing area bordering Florida’s Lake Okeechobee.<\/p>\n

The local cop, Kenneth Holley, couldn’t recall a similar case in Glades County in the 20 years he’s worked there. There was a recent case where <\/a>a father had a child by his 12-year-old daughter but nothing where a brother and sister lived as husband and wife and had so many children.<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Local residents had this to add Outsiders probably will think it’s a redneck town with inbreeders … but that will pass. ‘After a time it will just go away. People won’t <\/a>talk about it as much. It’s a pretty simple town. We try to get along with everybody. We do
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\n‘t even have a stop light.’<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And four grandchildren! Sibling couple Samuel Thomas Patrick (52) and Debra Lynn Patrick (44) kept a casket cont a ining the body of their infant son inside their remote home for 12 years. The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}