A Texas mother is demanding that the “Real Bodies” exhibit perform a DNA test on one of its preserved bodies that she insists belongs to her 23-year-old son, who died in suspicious circumstances in 2012.
On Nov. 10, 2012, Chris Erick, 23, was found dead in his bed at his grandmother’s home in Midlothian, Texas, about 30 miles south of Dallas, where he had been living at the time.
At the time, police informed his mother – Kim Erick – that her son had died in his sleep after suffering two heart attacks, which they attributed to an undiagnosed heart condition, CBS News reports.
Two days later, the grieving mother viewed the body of her son at a local funeral home and then – without consulting her first – Chris’s father and grandmother arranged for his cremation, giving Erick a necklace containing what she was told were some of his ashes.
‘Something very bad happened’
Despite the official explanation, Erick remained unsettled.
Her concerns intensified when she received a set of police scene photographs, which she said showed a series of troubling physical signs that were never mentioned in the initial report.
“Something very bad happened in that room!” she shared in a Facebook post that included graphic images of the young man, dead in his bed. “They had Chris in there for two days before he died. The medical examiner who did the autopsy said Chris suffered two separate heart attacks. In my opinion, Christopher was tortured for the two days he was held in his grandmother’s house in Midlothian Texas. That is where Christopher died.”
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