Supermarket Ignores Rotten Smell.. 10 Years Later, They Find an Employee's Body

A body was found at a supermarket behind a freezer that was shut down many years ago. When police got the description of the body, they knew who it belonged to, and confirmed the identity with a DNA test right away. Why was the body left there for years? And why was it hidden? Let’s get into it.
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[@sairi_a]

Imagine being one of the customers who left those complaints in the reviews learning 10 years later that the smell they were complaining about was a decomposing body.

[@spankynater4242]

They were vindicated.

[@KhoiruunisaRF]

Yikes!

[@mikoto7693]

Having smelt a decomposing fox body once as a child I’d have recognised the smell.

[@eggimage]

time to rate those reviews useful

[@01001000010101000100]

Well, I think it would be a better explanation for the store. From the consumer point of view it would be worse if they sold rotten food there or didn't clean the place properly. It's still pretty bad for the shop. I mean - how could they ignore the smell?

[@haileybalmer9722]

I worked at a grocery store that decided to lose business over rancid smells. In our case, we knew what the problem was, namely that the floor drains in the meat department would back up onto the floor and flood that department with rancid meat bits, juices, and fish blood that had fallen into the drain. It smelled awful. It smelled like a slaughter house. The customers would ask about it, and we were encouraged to lie about it. They'd literally rather lose customers and risk being shut down instead of pay to fix the problem. This wasn't a place like No Frills, either, this was a top of the line grocery store that was exclusively for rich people. Think Whole Foods, but independent and somehow even more expensive. The owner would come in with his new Ranger Rover and show off his rolexes and alligator shoes and brag about his ski chalet in Aspen, but we couldn't afford to fix the standing animal sludge in the meat department. Or raises. Ever. For anyone. So yeah, I absolutely believe a grocery store ignored the smell of a decomposing employee. I think that kind of attitude is less abnormal than people seem to think.

[@winglessbat]

profits over people is sadly something very common.

[@GumpierGoat2]

A family dollar in a small town I used to live in did something similar. They were one of 2 stores in town, so people really didn't have a choice but to shop there, so they just left it, and the smell got worse and worse. After a dollar general opened up right across the street, they still ignored the problem and went out of business after a month. I don't understand why nobody fixed it for so long, it couldn't have been more expensive than losing literally all of your customers.

[@Revkor]

how was the health department NOT called about that.

[@kennyferrick1240]

​@@Revkorbelieve me, sometimes they are but they don't do anything about it or they flag you for something else and don't do a proper job. 😐

[@Revkor]

@@kennyferrick1240 weird. my old job was alsmost closed down because a co worker used the wrong clearing in our rotisserre machine. close the entire store was beign threatened.

[@The.Nasty.]

It’s mind blowing that instead of investigating the source of a chronic rancid smell in a grocery store, said grocery store would rather lose business until they’re forced to close… absolute madness. Literally just moving some freezers is too much of an ask.

[@brianbrian1769]

@The Nasty Smells fishy to me. I would consider it potentially foul.

[@hundkebab2433]

it's general knowledge that people in leader positions have on average a below 80 IQ

[@custos3249]

Welcome to business

[@TeRenner123]

They Mostlikly searched for it but like they said the gab wasnt knowen weird nobody looked down there in 7 years

[@eadweard.]

Eh? What makes you think they never looked for the source? Obviously they wouldn't look in places where there isn't any food.

[@akumuryuu]

"What they were doing on top of the freezer". Well... investigating the stench, no? It's the most obvious excuse to make.

[@criminalbird9138]

Exactly! It's not like the smell is *only* detectable when you on top of a freezer slacking off

[@triopsate3]

Issue is, if they tell the management about the spot, management is likely to keep track of that spot in the future and then they'd lose their break area. There's no way to tell the management about the smell while still keeping the break area and so the employees chose the latter.

[@ddnava96]

@@triopsate3 Tbh I wouldn't even be able to comfortably take a brake with a literal corpse under my nose

[@kennyferrick1240]

​@@ddnava96they could've not known there was a body even if they were using the area(I'm speaking for personal experience), dead raccoon that turned out to be under the floorboards despite me having gone under the floorboards multiple times to fix pipes and never finding the actual source until the whole entire floor was ripped out and being replaced. So for me, it's not that difficult for me to believe that it could've been like my situation (even if they were slacking off unlike me).

[@alukuhito]

That's what I was thinking. It's pretty easy to make up a story. Someone must have seen the body. I bet the employees didn't like him, because he was crazy. They just couldn't bother. Just let him rot there. Pretty mean to his parents though who had to live without knowing what happened to him.

[@Myonexis]

The back of a freezer is warm so I can't imagine the stench that would have made. It's wild to me that no one ever decided to investigate.

[@winglessbat]

profits over people, moving the freezer would've costed precious time and money or the owners/managers....

[@ThePrufessa]

@@winglessbat more money than closing the whole store down?! You don't THINK about the nonsense before you post do you?!

[@Nestor__Makhno]

​@@ThePrufessasarcasm.

[@ThePrufessa]

@Nestor__Makhno nobody here is being sarcastic. You're suffering from lack of reading comprehension skills. Aka dumbism.

[@ThePrufessa]

@@Nestor__Makhno nobody is using sarcasm here. What are you talking about?!

[@UmatsuObossa]

Considering he was having massive craving for sugar, I wonder if he was having a severe hypoglycemic attack. They can make some people hallucinate and experience delusions and be severely agitated.

[@IWantToPetYourDog]

That makes sense. I'm guessing he didn't have the sense to scream for help while he was back there and the employees on the fridge were probably looking at their phones no paying attention. Shame on them if they noticed him there alive or not and were more worried about getting themselves in trouble than to say something.

[@UmatsuObossa]

@@IWantToPetYourDog If it was hypoglycemia he would've passed out and died not so long after getting stuck. The brain reacts to severe hypoglycemia by flooding you with adrenaline, but because your brain doesn't actually have the fuel it needs to opperate, you go really loopy too. And if you continue to not get your sugar up, then your brain runs completely out of fuel and shuts down

[@GodlyDra]

@@IWantToPetYourDog It was 2009, which im pretty sure was still right before mobile phones with fun apps and stuff became common and advanced enough to be used by regular working people.

[@bensoncheung2801]

@@UmatsuObossaWhelp, that helps explain things.

[@someguy9778]

If true, he might have went into a coma.

[@wmdkitty]

Human decomp is a very distinct odor, it'd be hard to mistake it for anything else. I have no idea how everyone just... hand-waved the odor away as, "eh, rotten food."

[@gerardmontgomery280]

Not everyone has seen/smelt a dead body. Wakes are not universal. If you don't know what the rotten smell is and your in a super market the rotten food makes most sense.

[@spankynater4242]

It seems like not everybody did, many didn't go back. Also, it's possible that the odor was contained to some degree based on its location.

[@Emzo123]

I don't think most people would know what a rotting corpse smells like...

[@nikkipassick9962]

@@Emzo123i was thinking the same thing, makes me wonder how many dead bodies OP has smelled 😭

[@Aveture]

@@nikkipassick9962 you just need to smell it once. its a pretty unforgettable smell. my garage started smelling foul one day and it grew unbearable over the following couple days and no amounting of cleaning and spraying was making it better. turns out a possum had made its way into the wall and was stuck there until it died.

[@NeroBaelside13]

I work at a walmart and for 5 weeks the chip aisle smelled absolutely rancid. Customers were even constantly complaining and trying to get out of the aisle as fast as possible. None of the managers seemed to care. One actually went down the aisle and sniffed around and told us he didn't smell anything and to focus on stocking. My coworker Mitch eventually found a package of raw chicken rotting buried in with some of the bags of chips. I had honestly expected it to be a dead rat. But my point is yeah, I can see this happening more than once. Management will ignore smells that could lead to the discovery of a rotting corpse for sure

[@petey_know_pablo]

Same thing happened at a Walmart I worked at, someone threw a package of salad behind one of the shelves it smelled horrible.

[@qynoi42]

Psychosis is such a beast. Unfortunately, there are just too many stories of people experiencing psychosis just wandering away and suffering terrible fates. I'm just glad it didn't claim my friend or aunt.

[@BargerClan]

Psychosis and wonder what is that I heard of cyber-psychosis in the Cyberpunk 2077 maybe it’s similar

[@purplepurina]

@@BargerClanare you serious? you know what cyber-psychosis is but not the term it was based on?

[@BargerClan]

@@purplepurina 😊

[@justinchase6666]

Seems like drugs. He has the munchies and is probably high.

[@ghidorahs1fan209]

​@justinchase6666 you don't have voices telling you to eat with the munchies and you tend to crave savoury food with the munchies

[@criminalbird9138]

*How* did they stand the smell? Even a dead mouse behind a furniture smells awful. And in that case it's a human body!

[@kinkyspidaboots]

it was kind of a big store, and most of us got in and out as quick as possible. also that part of town in general just smelled bad, just not to that same extreme, so nose-blindness also came into play after a bit

[@CrackheadHuntersDopeDealer]

​@@kinkyspidabootsDamn.

[@taotaoliu2229]

Employee 1: You smell something strange? Employee 2: Hmm, maybe the apples are rotten. Employee 1: Yeah, that’s probably it.

[@bazarleam2593]

It's that simple.

[@MosheBenChaim]

I know the smell of a rotting corpse, believe me that it doesn’t smell anything like that, it is a smell you never forget. But if you never smelled it it could be what you are saying.

[@SpicyMang0s]

@@MosheBenChaimuhhh how do you know the smell of a rotting corpse

[@AyaAishi-qt1zn]

Finnaly someone asked the right question

[@AyeJayee]

​@@SpicyMang0sthere could be many reasons why, and none of them a cause for concern. Could be a loved one or person they found that way, or it could simply be a part of their job.

[@JK-gm6kk]

Cant imagine being the parents. Freakin brutal

[@k0t01d8]

theyre at fault for not listening

[@JK-gm6kk]

They likely regret that everyday, for the rest of their lives. But we shouldn't feel bad for them because they had an argument and fought before he disappeared. Ridiculous

[@letsgoalready5515]

@@k0t01d8she tried to get him help, but we all know how easy it is to speak without knowing. Get off your high-horse. You have no idea what it was like for them or what lack of resources they have, psychosis can be sudden. Most people don’t know what to do about it or have resources to help.

[@JK-gm6kk]

Apparently @k0t01d8 has never made a mistake a day in their lives. Probably because they're delusional, 12 or both.

[@AnAdorableWombat1]

Y’all are really blaming the parents for their psychotic son being found behind a fridge? They tried to get him help. He was also on drugs. Research the full story

[@ARGY001]

Imagine how many other bodies in this world that are rotting away or a skeleton that still haven't been found in 5, 20 or even up to 100 years. Its scary and at the same time sad.

[@jillvu]

thinking about this always freaks me out. so many missing people... i mean SO many and they HAVE to be just out there somewhere! insane to think about

[@chastityembick9181]

Mount Everest is the number one spot

[@niceboi6364]

Have you ever heard of fossils? No? Don't look it up. You'll end straight up traumatized.

[@ARGY001]

I know what they are. But imagine somewhere out in Alaska in some remote place a guy died taking a sh*t. Noone knows about it. He's stuck in that position forever until someone finds him years later. One of those situations.

[@helladankseedco.2411]

@@chastityembick9181 Alaska...

[@winglessbat]

The back of freezers are warm, just like the back of most cooling appliances, the scent of rotting, cooking/burning meat would be impossible to ignore, im 99% sure the boss probably knew and could also smell the decomposition of something behind the freezers, but since moving them would cost effort, money and time they simply decided to let the smell go on. Literally choosing profits over people even if that means slowly coming closer to closing down which is what ultimately happened.

[@ThePrufessa]

The money it would've cost then to move the freezers and find the problem was not more than the money they lost by shutting the whole store down. So this excuse makes absolutely no sense.

[@winglessbat]

@@ThePrufessa clearly you haven't worked for any corporations yet, the higher ups always make choices based on short-term consequences and will rarely stop to think about what if it doesn't work. Im studying HR and let me tell you the amount of times we're reminded of that...

[@luizbezerra4373]

Burning dollars to save pennies

[@clementdato6328]

Over what people? Literally no one was hurt and you know there is a dead body only bc you watched the video.

[@winglessbat]

@@clementdato6328 bad smell in a store often means something is out of dste/broken, which means a health hazard for both costumers and workers :/

[@twocvbloke]

The fact the store managers just shrugged off the complaints of a foul smell in a specific area is bad enough if it were something like stock having gotten dropped and lost, but for it to be ignored because there's a dead man back there, they should live the rest of their lives with that fact tattooed on their foreheads, it's horrific to think that people could literally smell something was wrong, and nothing was done to investigate, profit over people...

[@benmcreynolds8581]

The workers just had to mention there's a ungodly smell coming from that area. They had a employee go missing. (they knew of the secret break spot but didn't need to say that but it should have influenced them to bring up the smell to their boss)

[@spankynater4242]

The gap was pretty tight, it's not outside the relm of possibility that they didn't even consider it.

[@KhoiruunisaRF]

@@spankynater4242 At least they can consider rats or something else smaller than humans.

[@spankynater4242]

@@KhoiruunisaRF Yeah, but those things are pretty big, it would take a massive effort to move it to look for a dead mouse. Besides, nature on its own will take care of the remains eventualy.

[@kenirainseeker539]

@@spankynater4242 Eventually. Not fast enough to avoid the store shutting down

[@spankynater4242]

@@kenirainseeker539 It stayed open for 7 years after his disappearance, the smell would have been years gone by then.

[@tourmii]

the way people describe the smell of a decomposing body i just can't fathom how that place stayed open for 7 years with his body just rotting in there

[@kylehogan2247]

As the son of a schizophrenic; on set illness in very much a thing. know your warning signs and show love and care in the face of aggravation and fear. mental health knowledge is so important and can save lives

[@letsgoalready5515]

I’m honestly disgusted with how some people are trying to shame the parents. It’s no one’s fault that he had schizophrenia.

[@kylehogan2247]

@letsgoalready5515 or any other psychosis related affliction; there are so many factors and illnesses that play into this stuff it's sad. The parents don't deserve blame for the things they didn't do or didn't have control over. Now if home life was so bad they are primary cause of his psychosis, well, that's a bit different, but this stuff is usually a lot more complicated than "oh that's what did it" with the exception of extremes. Abusive home life, death, etc etc

[@caitlincassandra]

As commented by someone above. He could have been in a diabetic episode and if he wasn't diagnosed, nobody would have known. Possibly explains the behavior and why he wasn't calling for help the next day (if diabetic, he could have slipped into a comma during the night and died).

[@matthewc3120]

So strange he didn't call out for help when the store reopened. Wonder if the fall knocked him out and he passed away while unconscious. Or he was dead before he made it behind the freezers. The fact that nobody investigated the smell, and their indifference to seeing him, makes the circumstances even more suspicious.

[@tm81147]

Crazy nobody will ever know how he died. Its scary. Had to be quick because he would of definitely called out for help once he heard the store reopening

[@BollyToHolly]

Probably got electrocuted maybe

[@Shthophyckq]

Maybe the freezers were too loud and he wasn't able to shout loudly when he was stuck and couldn't breath.

[@BollyToHolly]

@@Shthophyckq My theory is he fell and lost consciousness and also started to bleed and got electrocuted because of the liquid/blood. Also, he was wet anyway cause he was outside in a heavy snowstorm, and those things can shock you from the backside.

[@SMCwasTaken]

Men have to be the punching bags of society yet again 🙄🙄🙄

[@robinbloxom]

Did no one even look down while getting into the space?? I can’t imagine a dead adult human is hard to miss.

[@kennyferrick1240]

You'd... Be surprised these days. You think something is so obvious until it really isn't. (Speaking from personal experience).

[@1greenMitsi]

everyones on their phones

[@Lu-dm7rn]

Maybe they weren't able to see anything for it being a possible dark spot

[@robinbloxom]

@@Lu-dm7rn that's possible, especially if he landed in a way that nothing shiny or reflective was showing

[@alukuhito]

I'm sure they did. I think they probably didn't like the guy anyway. I bet he was hard to work with. He had mental issues, which would have annoyed people. They were probably happy he was there rotting away. It was their little secret.

[@PaulZyCZ]

Certain supermarket chain keeps dumpster in their back room next to supply ramp and pallets of goods. You can tell everytime you go around the entrance. Still... dead body is on a completely different level, possibly an open sewer, not just open dumpster. I can only imagine, but I know a smell of open sewer, dead fish and chicken leg left rotting several meters from my window (I lived on a dormitory while at uni).

[@larae6885]

There was a dead mouse in my closet and the smell was HORRIBLE, can only imagine a grown MAN!🤢

[@megangleesonxoxo]

Ignoring the stench for a second, I am in disbelief that no employees, while up there, didn't see his body under them. Especially if they're hopping up on the freezer you would think they'd be paying attention to positioning themselves so they don't accidentally fall into the gap...if this was such a popular hangout spot you would think, given the odds with so many people up there all the time, that at least someone would see him in the gap during all those years. ESPECIALLY if the smell was emanating from there you would think they'd take a peek out of curiosity...

[@Shthophyckq]

Maybe there was too much darkness and with the smell, the place became much less popular.

[@EggEnjoyer]

The freezers are high up off the ground and the gap was extremely thin. Meaning that it was likely impossible to see down into the bottom. They most likely just thought it was some kind of animal or rotting food caught behind the freezer

[@Shthophyckq]

If they hadn't demolished the shop, the archeologists some thousand years later would be really confused.

[@princenoah21]

No more animations with your coffee guy?

[@AnimeBleachBabe]

Yeah, I miss the BREW CREW!I miss seeing little Bean!

[@midnightflame7731]

YEAH SAME

[@janelle9998]

I was looking for that sprite 😞

[@princenoah21]

@@janelle9998 Same 😭

[@mrrooter601]

a shame to be sure

[@MosheBenChaim]

8:30 You could just say ‘I smelled something rotting so I climbed up there to look behind the freezers.’

[@kenirainseeker539]

But then what would their excuse be for not seeing him

[@kennyferrick1240]

​@@kenirainseeker539 you can miss things even if you looked, (Speaking in personal experience even though it wasn't the same exact scenario.)

[@jomarcentermjm]

The only problem if they start investigating they would discovered an employee slacking off there if no one notify everyone

[@CrystalM1917]

I'm sure with how foul it was, one wouldn't have to be on top to smell it. I don't get why everyone that just walked by couldn't smell it...

[@aw8951]

It's sad because this was probably an issue for a while and only getting worst. There isn't enough services and accessible care for mental health. That, combined with his family probably being foreign and unaware of what to do for his issue which sounds like schizophrenia

[@AftrV]

Imagine being in front of the freezer pulling out something, completely unaware of a decomposing body only a meter away from you, and the only quaint hint you have a is a subtle stench, that turns out to be a rotting body.

[@onionbubs386]

Oh god, did his rotting body contaminate any of the food he was next to? I wonder if eating any of the frozen foods made anyone sick. That's just nauseating to think about 🤢

[@proximo3257]

"they were turned off and went warm" Actually you mean, "went cold", because a working freezer is nice and warm to the touch...especially the back side.

[@AdrianSchwartzmann]

There are types of coolers and freezers where most of the machinery is up on the roof and the refrigerant is just piped down into the banks of freezers / coolers. That type wouldn't have any warm or hot spots.

[@LZ_Protogen]

he was referencing the inside of the freezer

[@napoleonfeanor]

Uncertainty is usually the worst for people who lost a loved one.

[@nekonomicon2983]

I'd take it. Most people would rather their loved one's death be confirmed than missing forever.

[@cheesuschrist300]

"Im inside your walls" - guy behind the freezer

[@Meowface.]

You’d think there would have been TONS of maggots crawling all over the floor

[@rachelhartland6192]

And an infestation of flies too

[@alanboody7004]

@@rachelhartland6192 Part of me thinks the whole thing was embellished (in terms of length of time)...

[@rachelhartland6192]

@@alanboody7004 me too

[@lowlevelm]

The store where the pillar incident took place was Winco Foods in Lancaster, CA. The suspect hid in the pillar after fleeing a traffic stop. I used to live near there and shopped there every 2 weeks. Crazy stuff

[@staceywacey1978]

I remember driving past that store and seeing the area taped off.

[@notorioustori]

This is such a tragedy. Hearing this is in Council Bluffs, IA (across the river from Omaha, NE), I'm genuinely not surprised.

[@user-zq6ks8wi1b]

It’s horrible he was having a tough time and had to go through this. Can’t even imagine what he endured mentally and physically

[@chaldunalder]

What's crazy to me is the employees kept using the hideout. They would rather deal with the smell of a decaying body than work.

[@alanboody7004]

Nobody deals with that. That's why I think some of it was made up.

[@ofcourseimfullofit]

There’s a store down the road from me that smelled like death on hot days. I thought it was from faulty coolers because they’re always breaking down. Makes me wonder considering that homeless people have broken into the store a few times.

[@njajxvg]

They found anything yet?

[@ofcourseimfullofit]

@@njajxvg I complained about the smell many times but they never gave a reason.

[@Sovreign87]

Someone did not follow their cleaning procedures.

[@ZonnexNecton]

If the blank stare from the employees was true, then they KNEW where he was and feared for themselves.

[@erictaylor5462]

Was he paranoid, or was he murdered. And even if he was paranoid, well, I once read a bumper sticker that said, "Being paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

[@CrystalM1917]

😬

[@SMCwasTaken]

Why isn't anyone expressing sympathy for Larry?

[@FalloutProto]

I’ve been waiting for this one! Super cool story, glad you covered it.

[@subarolla]

The images of the employees chilling in the break area over Larry's body sent me.

[@alanboody7004]

I'm pretty sure that was made up. No way someone could be that close and just take a break with a smell like that.

[@DonaldHendleyBklynvexRecords]

The problem is many of those corner stores have rancid smells they ignore, I know because I worked in one

[@onewithdinosaurz]

its very sad watching this when it happened in your state. looking up and seeing your local news outlet as clips is wild. i hope the family finds peace one day

[@RamonFSM]

A couple typos: 4:32 on Victor Murillo’s quote, the surname is written with 3 L, but it should be only 2. And the other one in the missing persons billboard used everywhere on the video, about the middle of the billboard, Murillo is written as Muvillo.

[@vJoeyy_]

shut up

[@Xerdar36]

This is such a horrific story… absolutely insane

[@waytodawn8649]

I just found out about your channel and the work put into every video is astonishing. A link with all the sources, beautiful artwork and narration. Woooow

[@seinfan9]

There's no excuse from the employees. They didn't have to say they were on their unofficial break. They could have just notified someone that it smelled like something died near the freezers.They just didn't want to potentially lose their hiding spot, so they risked some sort of disease breaking out and contaminating the foods.

[@Scion141]

Not their problem. The bosses could have hired someone to find the source of the smell, but didn't, even letting the store shut down.

[@kinkyspidaboots]

they did investigate, they just hadnt found anything. the store itself when i went was just run down in general, we all assumed it was rotten food mixed with sewer fumes and bad building materials that caused it, and when we asked for clarification we were all shut down immediately

[@natemg8867]

the ultimate stuck between a rock and a hard place

[@franksavage8031]

HA! 🤣

[@johannesg8959]

@@franksavage8031Why you're laughing goofball.

[@am_Nein]

​@@franksavage8031:/

[@matthewboire6843]

Well, yea I suppose so

[@Wefoundwonderland1989]

Genuinely can’t understand how they continued to use the secret break area until the store closed without smelling the body

[@kenkenny6196]

I remember this story. Wow. How that smell was not inspected thoroughly amazes me. For this man to walk barefoot in the snow tells me he was not in the best mindset.

[@HelenaDax]

If they used to climb up the fridges to reach their hiding spot and the smell was so terrible, how come any of them took a look to see if they could find the cause of the smell? We're talking about a decomposing body that was just right there. The smell would make you gag. And no one looked???

[@ChuramiNakahara]

I'm guessing that maybe they didn't want to be blamed if there was something back there or in a scarier case they all knew what happened and kept it hush hush

[@swift7966]

This really chilled me to the bone…

[@TheUltimateRare]

thanks for more content. I wish good videos could be made faster, but there's no much we can do about it.

[@motionless_horizon]

I’m so glad psychosis didn’t take my cousins. It’s almost took one of them when he drove four hours north and we had to get police involved to find him. It’s terrifying how quickly psychosis can take you

[@affanjamsari5752]

To be honest, I don’t know if this is worse than the Mexia supermarket incident. Context: There once was a supermarket named Mexia. When it shutdown due to bankruptcy, the owners decided to leave all the food and drinks in there, causing all of them to rot away with the supermarket, thus making the place stink to high heaven.

[@damoji5332]

Considering there's a dead guy in this one, I think it's probably worse

[@HeadHunter697]

​@@damoji5332 the Mexia Supermarket was a literal biohazard to the entire area surrounding it, people couldn't use their air conditioning because it was pulling the toxic gases emanating from the building into their homes. A HAZMAT team had to clean up the entire building themselves because so many rodents and insects had taken residence inside the building that burning or demolition was out of the question, the pests would need to be exterminated. The team said there were so many roaches, they were completely covering every single window on the building, the cloud of flies inside the building was so thick, you couldn't see your hand in front of your mask.

[@kennyferrick1240]

​@@damoji5332actually... Uhh, not when the entire store leaves everything to rot... Then it becomes an extreme biohazard.

[@alanboody7004]

@@HeadHunter697 The previous owners at least received some kind of fine, right?

[@zbcrazy]

Didn’t expect brew to do a local story, wow

[@SpicyMang0s]

Yikes 😱

[@kinkyspidaboots]

same

[@kibunjojo4499]

I was never interested in this case until Brew made a video of it.

[@mnemonichotpocket]

Besides the poor guy dieing the next worst part is hearing all the testimonies of previous customers talk about how there was always a smell in that store...

[@oceanelf2512]

Horribly tragic and sad.

[@mikeyfriis]

saw the teaser of this it was such a cliff hanger!

[@joshmakeitrite]

stores get really dusty. i am amazed the employees or some hired cleaners didn't check back there.

[@danielhouser8845]

Heard this story before but you add more details than they do Thank you for the content

[@flyingwithjojo]

That building was never tore down. It is now a Retail Rebel dollar store. Some reviews in recent months still complain about a bad smell. The management says it’s been a plumbing issue. At 1817 Broadway St W Council Bluffs, Iowa. Creepy.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Stay classy, humanity. Thousands of years of consistency is a true achievement.

[@traybern]

It gets a LOT HOTTER than 100 F inside a pillar on the SUN SIDE of a store!!!!

[@3rdalbum]

He just said 100 degrees I think? Could have been 100 degrees Celsius

[@cornonthecob4204]

he said 100 degrees fahrenheit

[@marck0060]

I remember this episode of Superstore

[@XenagarD]

This is believable if you work in retail, you have no idea the negligence that exists in everywhere from fast food places to simple places of shopping like groceries or even household item stores.

[@jdee8407]

"So remember next time your at the store, if you smell something rotten.. it might not be the food .." 💀😫🤣

[@CalebHansonlets]

Life lesson takeaway: don't climb on stuff at grocery stores

[@WeWereTheStorm]

Yeah no kidding, those freezers way tons and could easily crush a person

[@psilocin9533]

Personally I've noticed a lot of stories lately that involve deteriorating mental health after starting/taking antidepressants (specifically SSRIs). Its almost like we shouldn't depend on drug manufacturers to do trustworthy science.

[@spankynater4242]

It's more likely they would not be on meds if they weren't already deteriorating mentally. Mental illness isn't static, it ebs and flows, and this guy's was likely on a downhill spiral.

[@remingtonryder]

I have been prescribed several different medications for depression. And unfortunately, sometimes the side effects just aren't worth continuing to take that medication until you see some kind of benefit. Currently I'm on what I think is the right medication and it keeps me calm and able to function. I always felt able to go to my doctor and say, sorry, this medication is not working, and they gave me the support and preparation I needed. Like telling me that withdrawing from a medication would make me feel sick, but that I would feel better once the new medication kicked in. So I stocked up on food and other things I thought I would need to get me through that. And yes, the part where I was withdrawing from one medication and then going onto another medication was rough. Sometimes I had to wait for the first medication to completely leave my body before starting on the new one. That was the worst! The stories about people having poor mental health after starting antidepressants are probably all true. But that doesn't mean that anti-depressants are universally bad, just that, like in my case, it can be a guessing game as to which one will work best. Currently the worst side-effect I'm experiencing is dry mouth. It's a lot more manageable (I drink more water and other fluids) than irritability, in other words I felt stressed and more prone to angry outbursts than usual. One time, I had an argument with a family member and walked out. That led to me asking the doctor if I could change to a different medication. They asked me why and when I told them about the side effects they agreed and switched me to something else. It could be that Larry got angry and had an argument with his parents in part because of the side effects of his medication. His sudden urge to leave could be a reaction to stress as a side effect. I really don't know. But what we can do is be more watchful for and aware of these sorts of side effects, which are the ones we definitely don't want.

[@thethrashyone]

"Noooo shut up, Big Pharma knows best, u gaiz!" -Some really weird people out in the world

[@winglessbat]

its almost like every person's mental state is different and some antidepressants work with some people and other dont....

[@kimberlyyyyy44]

It’s more like it takes more than just medication usually it takes therapy too. Also it takes a lot of people years even decades to find the right medication and right dosage for their own personal needs.

[@WizNiteGamingOfficial]

This is so scary

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

“Hmm. There’s a rancid smell coming from the freezers in my store… eh I’m sure it’s nothing” Were all the employees unable to smell? Or at least investigate? The most insane part is how the staff could easily have seen him! How did they not!? Or at the least see him or tell anyone if they did?

[@DisneyBlackJet]

So sad. Friends, let’s look out for each other as well as we can. 🙏🏼 Great content as usual, Brew. Miss seeing your face!

[@papito4434]

Well the thing is in my town there is also a supermarket that had a so strong nauseating smell around the freezers when the warehouse door was open, that i always tried to stay away and hold my breath for a very long time. So i can partially relate to those people a tiny bit.

[@0mniaVanitas]

would be great if they stopped prescribing antidepressants for everything, specially on the very first appointment with a new patient, he probably wouldn't have gotten That bad if it wasn't for that, psychosis and paranoia don't mix with anti depressants, they make it Far Worse

[@laurenwipfler5104]

Oh! I remember the news articles when authorities first began investigating. It was major local news in my area. The story fell out of the cycle, though, before they solved their case. I'm excited for this video! An answer!!

[@beanythingbutyou]

the graphics of the employees slacking in their secret hideout 😂😂😂

[@someguy9778]

I always wondered about this case. Seemed crazy at the time.

[@nicolacruz3537]

so the fridges never needed maintenance or replacement for over 10+ years！ great brands

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Thumbs up to the artist making the illustrations for this story! I like the style.

[@aob4214]

Now that is utter nonsense, and that is totally made up because of a body had been decomposing for literally years, not even frozen, but behind a wall then there’s no way that its eyes would still be intact. They would’ve been well petrified and gone. But the fact that the onlooker stared into the “corpses called dead eyes“ is thoroughly inaccurate. Not saying that this didn’t happen, but the specifics indicate gross exaggeration at the very least.

[@kennyferrick1240]

Why don't you look it up for yourself? (Or even like in my case experience it in person, only difference is that it was a raccoon that had been rotting for ages and I had become nose blind to the stench for a long while.) You'd be VERY surprised and it depends on the environment on top of this.

[@DrachenGothik666]

The holes where the eyes had been would still be there, so "staring into it's dead eyes" would still apply. NOT much of an exaggeration, to my mind.

[@awurtz5808]

Council Bluffs resident here I still have a photo of the body after it was found crazy nobody else mentions seeing it as the people that found him posted it on fb before anything else but yes it was mummified. More or less skin wrapped bones.

[@Soonshain]

One thing that bothers me about this story is that he must have died in the few hours before the store reopened for the day. Humans can survive without food and water for multiple days so he would have been able to call for help when his colleagues were working and I imagine they would've been able to hear him.

[@ruth_southernstar]

How terribly sad. God bless him x

[@hughwoatmeigh6999]

If you smell something bad at a grocery store, you shouldn't shop there. Simple as that.

[@whosjozikolnik]

why was there no intro?:( I love the song

[@mxdbscts]

same

[@boredyoutubeuser]

Me too bro 😪 🤧 😢 😞 😔 😕

[@f8keuser]

Imagine being a worker stocking the freezer that has the body right behind it and the worker never knew.

[@kinkyspidaboots]

yo as a person who lived there during that timeframe we used to joke about it being abandoned for a reason. then everyone was talking about it for weeks on end after it was discovered and it was the biggest talk of the town for years

[@stonerhino83]

Sounds like the parents wanted a No Frills investigation.

[@randijohnson3806]

This happened not far from where I grew up. I feel like every No Frills had a weird smell.

[@MeMe-hu8wx]

😢😮

[@1398go]

“…seep into his mind….where it would live rent free”….😂😂😂 Why does it sound half serious and the other half a high school speech assignment. 😅

[@Nona-business]

Yo! Falling to a point of being trapped and starving is absolutely the scariest thing

[@kathras]

guys here me out, what if, someone was following larry and he was not really paranoid but really being followed

[@MajorLeagueAbility]

My last HR lady:"You seem to not care whether you work or here or not." Me:"That's mutual. If I died on my way home today yall would consider it a no call no show job abandonment"

[@sunjeetdosanj7505]

The teaser was so interesting

[@He-Haw]

Where was the health department? Who did fire safety inspections required for them? Because THAT person needs to answer some questions and possably do some jailtime.

[@MitchellShilling]

I remember the Infographics Show talking about his a few years ago in one of their videos.

[@marysuckafreechic9006]

All of them failed him. So sad. RIP to him.

[@AndyC3.0]

This reminds me of the Halloween episode from superstore.

[@churblefurbles]

Fridge fans help to dry the condensate and frost melt, so probably helped to desicate the body.