Couple's Bodies Found At Recycling Plants

(AP)  Two people whose bodies were found at paper recycling plants more than 1,000 miles apart were a homeless couple who apparently went to sleep in a recycling container before its contents were compacted, police said Tuesday.

Officials said there were no obvious signs of foul play.

One body was found last week at the Abitibi Consolidated plant in Snowflake, Ariz., about 175 miles northeast of Phoenix. It was positively identified Tuesday as Thomas Jansen, 53, a south St. Louis County man missing since late last month, authorities said.

The Navajo County, Ariz., sheriff's office told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that workers at the Snowflake plant found the body in a large container used to collect material rejected in the paper recycling process.

(CBS)

Using railroad documents, investigators determined that a large bale of material had been shipped to the Arizona plant from the St. Louis area. Jansen's body was identified from partial fingerprints and a description on an expired driver's license.

The body of Jansen's wife, Susan, 48, was found May 24 on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in north St. Louis.

Police believe both of the Jansens, who had recently become homeless, had gone to sleep in a recycling container in south St. Louis County in Missouri before the container's contents were emptied into a truck and compacted.

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[taylpatr]

To jodaja1983-It is a real struggle for many of us out here.More people are living from paycheck to paycheck and are one months pay from being put out in the street.The reason the government is responsible and people can't just "get out and get a job" is that the capitalists that run ouir economy have made it profitable, and it's become an accepted practice, to "outsource" jobs to other countries.As long as our government gives these corporations huge tax breaks and still permits them to be headquartered in the U.S., they will go for the profit, no matter the cost to American families.Kimberley-Clark shut down two plants last year, one in Utah and another in Idaho. Both of these plants assembled stomache tubes to be used for surgery.Now, the stomache tubes are made in Mexico, in a village with no flush toilets.But they left the Huggies plant in Ogden, Utah. As long as these capitalist
pigs are allowed to screw their fellow Americans and keep putting people on the street, we're going to see more and more of these un-nessecary evils.Boycott Kimberley-Clark and as many of these corporations as you can. The only thing that gets their attention is money, or the loss of it.

[noview1]

Actually mmcminn3 it's 10 Million. Even worse.

[jodaja1983]

my wife and i live paycheck to paycheck. we cant both work because daycare would take most of my wifes check. we had to figure out a budget that works for us and work hard on a daily basis. we live on $12.75 an hour have 2 dependable vehicles, a small but nice home. Pay for medical ins through my employer and buy our own groceries. I just dont understand why all these people are living off of american tax dollars and not having to get out there and get a job. why should we have to pay for there free money, and why should the government be blaimed because their aren't jobs out there. WE DIDNT GET OUR FREEDOM FROM THE GOVERNMENT, OUR FOUR FATHERS FOUGHT FOR IT, and so should we. the government should be relied on to keep order. i pray every day that all this countryies b/s and pointing the fingure doesnt lead my grandkids into a communist country and the government telling them how to spend their money because their parents depended on them for groceries, diapers, and dr bills

[grammawhamma]

ceethomas. I am glad to hear that you do your part and more. What angers me are those people that whine about everything but do nothing actively to change the situation. The world needs more "doers". Yes, I do my part where and when I can.

[ceethomas]

GrammaWhamma

Yes to all and even MORE than you can imagine. And that is why I see clearly what has happened to my country in the past six years. Do YOU work all day, as well as the local food bank, volunteering at the polls, helping out at your local schools, nonprofit organizations, etc.?

[padams1010]

coffeehead ...

Wow ... "farming our homeless into "trade" peons" ... "We don't need "trades" - low paying , government trained minions." ... "Many of these people deserve better from you all." YOUR remarks to my suggestions for HELPING the homeless GET BACK ON THEIR FEET!! Teaching them a trade (a.k.a. JOB)they can TAKE OUT (on their own two feet) of the shelter into the working world. You think "these people" deserve better from "all of you"? What's better than an honest days work for an honest days pay?? Go ahead, pinhead ... what's your solution? Soup kitchens under the a bridge somewhere ... or better yet ... sleeping quarters in the recycle bin!!

[mmcminn3]

1 billion Muslims and 1 percent are willing to give their life to the cause. That equals, ok I will do the math, 1 million. I may not be PC but am wise. You don't have to listen or think about it. You could just click the X.

[ceethomas]

mmcminn3

HUH? Who is "they" doing the nuking?

Fight them till the bitter end? Who is "them?"

What "truth" hurts?

Are you hiding in a bunker, living in the woods, or what?

[mmcminn3]

Grandma, I think he does vote. Putting more liberals in charge of the schools, that move the kids through like cattle so they don't have to re"teach" them next year and then wonder why they can't hold down a job. The public schools and the NEA keep saying "throw us more money" and the result is no discipline and complete waste. Japan is laughing at us on that one.