Guest Author - Vance Rowe
We all know the old adage: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Is this the same for urban legends? What if the urban legend urns out to be true but didn't just happen in Vegas?
A lot of tales seem to originate from Sin City like the body hat was found under the bed in the hoel room or the body that was found in the bathtub full of ice after the kidneys were taken from it but the body under the bed is a fascinaing tale and just so happens to be true but it didn't originate in Las Vegas.
The very first recorded account happened in 1982 in New Jersey. There were three men who were auto thieves. Richard Kuklinski, Gary Smith and Daniel Deppner. During one of their crime sprees, the three men were staying in a motel room in North Bergen when Deppner and Kulinski decided it was time to part company with Smith. They fed him a hamburger that was laced with poison and when Smith died, the other two disposed of his body by placing it under the bed and there it stayed for four days before finally being discovered. Each night of those four nights the room had been rented out but guests had ignored the smell of the decomposing body.
Do you think that was a long time to go undiscovered? Well, in 2010 in Memphis Tennessee a woman was found dead in a bed frame in a motel room after being reported missing seven weeks prior to the discovery of her body. Seven weeks of rotting under a motel room bed and no one thought to check under it for the smell. What does this say about the cleaning staff?
Between 1982 and 2010, there have been other bodies found in box springs, bed frames, under beds in places like: Mineola, New York, Rosedale, Maryland, Alexandria, Virginia and many other places in the United States so why did he urban legend seem o originate in Las Vegas, Nevada? More than likely it was because Vegas has a lot of tourists, transients, prostitutes, etc... so it seems more plausible tha he story would happen there rather than smaller cities and podunk towns.
Just be sure that if you travel and stay at a lot of motels, you look under the beds for dead bodies instead of the boogey man because chances are that you won't find the boogey man but you may find a decomposing body.
