Flood Dug up a woman's casket buried 8 years ago and carried it to another location

 

Richard Lee widower is taking legal action after his late wife's casket was unearthed during the recent Texas flooding and he was instructed to go and identify her body - eight years after she died from cancer.

He later travelled to Riceville Cemetery to identify her eight-year-old corpse, which had floated 100 yards away in the casket before coming to rest on a biking trail last Tuesday and instantly recognized the casket he had bought for his wife, who passed away aged just 56 from lung cancer in 2007.

At that moment, he said he felt utterly 'distraught'. However, he was saved from the pain of having to identify his spouse's body after the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences did so for him.

'I didn't want to look inside because I'd never get that out of my mind,' Lee told SFGate.

'I was distraught. I was just out of my mind. I couldn't believe this happened. I thought that I had put her to rest and I thought I had put this all behind me,' he told the news site. 'I'd like to know how did it happen. And I want it to be resolved. I want my wife put back in her grave in her resting place.'

McAdams added: 'We know that bodies are not supposed to float out of their graves.

Fobbs-Lee's casket, which cost Lee more than $11,000, was first spotted by Yoel Rubio, who was cycling down the trail in southwestern Houston early on Tuesday and promptly called the police.

At least 11 more people have been declared missing. On Monday, officials identified two bodies found last week, including a mother who was washed away in her vacation home with her family. 

 

 

 

 

Laura McComb, 34, was identified on Monday evening along with family friend, 71-year-old Sue Carey, who was also staying in the home and whose husband, Ralph Hugh Carey, 73, was found dead last week. The body of Ms McComb's son, Andrew, six, was also recovered last week.

Her four-year-old daughter, Leighton, remains missing, while her husband, Joseph, was the only person to escape from the property in Wimberley as it was swept away in the deadly floods.