OAKLAND PARK FLORIDA
How no one smelled the horror that authorities say may have been up in Glenn Parker's overgrown tree for a year is a mystery, but the partially mummified body made itself known last week.
Tree trimmers cutting branches so BellSouth crews could service phone lines cleared enough foliage to let Parker spot a skeleton in the tree Friday, he said.
"I hope I don't find another one," said Parker, 45, on Monday.
Luckily, he said, there are no more large trees in his backyard.
Investigators removed a skeleton that had apparently been hanging in the tree since last year.
The Broward Sheriff's Office said the remains are likely those of someone who committed suicide, and foul play is not suspected.
The case remains under investigation.
Parker said investigators are checking to see if the remains could be those of his former roommate, who disappeared about a year ago.
But how nobody could have smelled the rotting corpse in Florida's broiling heat is puzzling.
"I never smelled anything," insisted Parker, who has lived in the house in the 1200 block of Northwest 43rd Street for 14 years.
His neighbors, whose backyard pool is just yards from where the body was found, said they never smelled anything, either.
The skull, Parker said, was about 5 feet off the ground, suspended in some leafy branches.
When Parker took a closer look, he said he spotted the skeleton hanging above it. That's when he called 911.
The tree has since been cut down.
Parker wonders how the tree trimmers didn't notice the skeleton.
The Sheriff's Office says it appears no one noticed it because it was camouflaged by the tree.
"It's weird," Parker said.
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