For years, no one knew what had happened to an Iowa man who stormed out of his home, barefoot into a blizzard. Now, a disturbing simulation is shedding light on the grim reality of how his body ended up trapped behind a supermarket refrigerator for nearly a decade.
About 6:15 p.m. on Nov. 28, 2009, Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada ran barefoot out of his Council Bluffs, Iowa, home and vanished into the snowstorm raging outside.
According to CNN, the 25-year-old had returned from a Thanksgiving shift at the supermarket he worked the day before, and was “acting irrationally.”
“He said somebody was following him, and he was scared,” Murillo-Moncada’s mother said through an interpreter, per The Florida Times-Union.
The next day, the supermarket worker was reported missing.
Flyers soon appeared around the city, calls were made to friends and relatives, and police began searching for clues, but despite their efforts, no clear leads surfaced.
As weeks passed without answers, the case gradually went cold, leaving his loved ones wondering what had happened to the young man who had vanished.
