Woman found crushed to death by lettuce

31/01/2007 - 22:12:23
The body of a missing woman has been found in a delivery truck, crushed to death by lettuce.

A dockworker at a grocery store distribution centre found the body of Sheila Kay Ross, 47, three days after she was reported missing in Arizona.

Ross was accidentally pinned inside the truck while it was being loaded, said Dr. John Kraemer of the Iowa medical examiner’s office. The cause of death was compressional asphyxiation.

Ross and her husband had gone to a food plant on Saturday night to pick up supplies, and Sheila Ross got out of the truck to get paperwork but never returned.

A telephone message left for officials at the trucking company was not immediately returned.

A spokesman for the distribution centre said the lettuce in the truck was destroyed.