Woman too poor to afford funeral buries husband in backyard
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California authorities made a sad and ghastly discovery this week during a routine check on a San Bernadino man: His wife had buried him in their backyard because she couldn’t afford a funeral.
According to NBC4, Yvonne Winn, 59, told police that her husband, Thom Winn, 63, died last month of natural causes, and she then buried him in a makeshift grave, a hole about 5-feet deep she dug behind their Apple Valley home.
Thomas Winn’s body was discovered stuffed into two garbage bags, according to NBC4 in Southern California.
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“When they pulled the body out, the smell was rancid,” a neighbor told NBC4.
Neighbors are now raising money to give Thomas Winn a proper funeral service, and one local woman has reportedly even donated a tuxedo in which he will be properly buried.