{"id":566,"date":"2005-12-27T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/we_hear_arizona_is_nice_this_time_of_year.html"},"modified":"2005-12-27T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T17:46:50","slug":"we_hear_arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/we_hear_arizona.html","title":{"rendered":"We Hear Arizona Is Nice This Time Of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “confused” Upper East Side woman who was unsure what to do with a dead body seems to have wanted to ship her dead husband’s body to Arizona via parcel post<\/a>. The smell led police to her apartment:<\/p>\n

The smell of death led cops yesterday to a ritzy upper East Side building, where a confused 67-year-old woman told them she stuffed her husband’s corpse in a suitcase to ship him to Arizona, police sources said.<\/p>\n

“He always wanted to go to Arizona,” Carole Fallon told cops who arrived at her cluttered 11th-floor apartment in the Plaza Tower on E. 60th St., where she lives with her 97-year-old mother, the sources said.<\/p>\n

When asked about a foul odor, the women pointed to a suitcase packed with the rotting body of 87-year-old James Fallon, who died about two weeks ago, sources said.<\/p>\n

Fallon, who suffered from a heart condition and high blood pressure, used a cane to get around and was in ailing health in recent months, neighbors said.<\/p>\n

“I think they were confused,” said William Fallon of Arizona, whose father married his stepmother 30 years ago. “It’s not the way I pictured my father.”<\/p>\n

Police believe Fallon, a retired Los Angeles land developer, died of natural causes and the women panicked, cops said.<\/p>\n

Carole Fallon and her mom, who both suffer from medical conditions, didn’t appear to believe they did anything wrong, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know who to call,” a police source told the Daily News. “They figured they could call the post office and they could come and pick it up.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Fallon and her mother, who don’t have any relatives in the immediate area, were taken to Bellevue Hospital to be looked after, sources said.<\/p>\n

Cops hauled two pricey Louis Vuitton bags out of the 34-story building but it was not immediately clear if they had been used in the bizarre body storage.<\/p>\n

The Plaza Tower was once home to famed Broadway performer Ethel Merman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A “confused” Upper East Side woman who was unsure what to do with a dead body seems to have wanted to ship her dead husband’s body to Arizona via parcel post. The smell led police to her apartment: The smell of death led cops yesterday to a ritzy upper East Side building, where a confused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}