Man's body found stuck in bank chimney after missing for 27 years

[ohiosmith]

A very strange and bizarre story has unfolded in Abbeville, Louisiana after a missing man's remains were found in a bank's chimney, 27 years since he was last seen. In what may be a botched robbery attempt, Joesph Schexnider's story, of how he ended up dead in a chimney, is baffling for both authorities and the man's family members.

Robert Schexnider wonders how his brother ended up stuck in a chimney in the first place. Theories that range from an accident to a robbery attempt gone awry have crossed his family's mind since the news of his body's discovery. His brother, who was tearing up while speaking about his missing sibling said, "at least they know where he is now," and added, "at least he is home," according to Yahoo News.

The story of the missing man is strange from the beginning, police report that Joesph Schexnider became stuck in the small town bank's chimney back in 1984 and apparently died. Maybe no one heard him call for help and the smell of a decomposing body was never detected inside the bank.

Schexnider was never reported missing by his mother and siblings and no one had ever searched for their missing family member. This was because the man was a loner and a wanderer from an early age. The last time the family saw Joseph was in January of 1984 when he was 22 years old.

Link: http://www.huliq.com/12079/mans-body-found-stuck-bank-chimney-after-missing-27-years

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. For a while after my initial open-heart surgery, my lung capacity...

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... was so diminished that I sometimes got short-of-breath and panted from the mere exertion
of lying there doing nothing. My lung capacity was ridiculously low (I worked on it and tripled
it and am STILL working on it to increase it even more).
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Far worse, It caused me to have very frequent, quietly terrifying dreams of being trapped and
slowly smothering. Happily, they seem to have passed... but I believe I'm pretty claustrophobic
now (at least compared to my previous state).
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I had to have a fair number of cat scans, and I in was constant dread of having to endure one
of the "full-tube" scans (I'm not sure I could have done it), but fortunately they were all the
one-or-two-foot wide "donut scans".
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Reading this account was not the least bit claustrophobia-inspiring for me... but occasionally
I DO have to change the channel on TV when a "trapped" scene occurs.
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Maybe not a COMMON experience, but definitely one that no one warned me about.
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[ohiosmith]

3. It is interesting how our psyche reacts to traumatic experiences. For a couple of years after an

auto accident wherein I hit black ice on a bridge and went over an eighty foot drop I couldn't drive across a bridge. Thirty five years later I still have dreams of losing control of my car and driving over a cliff or off a bridge.

[kick-ass-bob]

11. I spun out on a rain soaked highway with bad tires

and now every time the wind catches the car driving down a highway and gives it that little shimmy, I tense up and sometimes freak out.

It's even worse on those grooved highways because I feel that feeling of sideways movement even more.

[begin_within]

2. That's actually a pretty sad story.

[struggle4progress]

9. yeah, it is.

[Orrex]

4. Sounds like he caught the flue

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. ouch - -

ashes to ashes. . .

[Orrex]

6. Soot yourself!

[Dr. Strange]

13. You're just asking to get flamed, aren't you?

[chollybocker]

7. Whoa.

Too bad he didn't think of cutting off his arm and making a movie about it later.

[dimbear]

8. Ought to lead to an interesting lawsuit.

Any bank with an open chimney large enough to crawl into is just hankering for a lawsuit alleging wanton disregard.

They couldn't even claim they were expecting Santa.

Of course in Louisiana the justice system usually accepts a plea of "He needed killing, your Honor" but that's not going to work against a complete stranger.

[RedCloud]

10. So Santa just needed some money for the kids?

I don't think I can take that!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[dembotoz]

12. he was soooooooo hot --he was smokin