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Austin Recycling Center Bodies

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A Washington (state) teen's body was discovered on the conveyor belt in an Austin, Texas, recycling facility. This is the third body discovered in such a way at that facility in the last year.
Body of Washington teen found on recycling conveyor belt in Texas, sheriff says

An 18-year-old was found dead on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in Texas, officials said.

Workers at the recycling center found the body of Silas Octavis Strimple on Wednesday morning and alerted police, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said Strimple is from Washington, but did not disclose where in the state he lived.

There are no signs of foul play, the sheriff’s office said Thursday. “But due to the nature of where the body was discovered, the death is considered suspicious.” ...

Strimple is the third person found dead at a recycling center in the Austin area in the last year, the Austin American-Statesman reported. A 62-year-old man was found dead in December, and the body of a 31-year-old man was found last March.

FULL STORY: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/bo...exas-sheriff-says/MQJHQSWUDZEULEYFMJQB3Z7WHU/
 
Kind of brief report, but a third body was found in an Austin recycling centre (on the conveyer belt) in the space of about a year:
News story

This was an 18-yr-old, but the other two men were 62 and 31. No cause of death has been found, nor as far as I know any link between the deaths other than the recycling aspect.

Anyone heard any more or have any ideas?
 
Kind of brief report, but a third body was found in an Austin recycling centre (on the conveyer belt) in the space of about a year:
News story

This was an 18-yr-old, but the other two men were 62 and 31. No cause of death has been found, nor as far as I know any link between the deaths other than the recycling aspect.

Anyone heard any more or have any ideas?
Homeless people sleeping in dumpsters would be my guess, there was a kid killed recently in England somewhere who was sleeping in an industrial bin when it was emptied, his 2 friends who were in there with him survived.
 
Homeless people sleeping in dumpsters would be my guess, there was a kid killed recently in England somewhere who was sleeping in an industrial bin when it was emptied, his 2 friends who were in there with him survived.

"The death is considered suspicious" according to the report. But no signs of foul play and no mention of him being homeless (doesn't mean he wasn't, mind you). What's he carrying under his arm in the security footage?
 
Kind of brief report, but a third body was found in an Austin recycling centre (on the conveyer belt) in the space of about a year:
News story

This was an 18-yr-old, but the other two men were 62 and 31. No cause of death has been found, nor as far as I know any link between the deaths other than the recycling aspect.

Anyone heard any more or have any ideas?
People being killed then being dumped in big recycling bins, or folk sleeping in skips/dumpsters and sadly being crushed in the garbage truck after they get tipped into it. It's not uncommon, sadly.

One recent example from the UK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...kent-crushed-bin-sleeping-rough-a8887701.html

"A man died from infection after his legs were crushed from being tipped into a refuse lorry – because he was sleeping in a bin.
Russell Lane’s legs were severely crushed after a rubbish container he was sleeping in was emptied into the lorry.
Doctors wanted to amputate his leg but the 47-year-old refused and pleaded for a second opinion.
Just over a month later Mr Lane, from Rochester, Kent, died at hospital after an artery in his leg became infected.
An inquest on Wednesday at Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone, heard Mr Lane had suffered severe crushing injuries to his legs in the accident..."
 
As of the time Strimple's body was discovered there had been 4 such incidents (bodies discovered at recycling facilities) in the space of 6 years. Strimple's discovery was the third in a year. All 4 discoveries occurred at one of two recycling centers in the Austin area.
Body found on conveyor belt is third found at Austin-area recycling plant in past year
Austin American-Statesman Published ... Mar. 25, 2021

The teenager, identified by authorities as Silas Octavia Strimple, is the fourth person found dead at an Austin-area recycling center since 2015 and the third one in the past 12 months.

Authorities responded to the recycling center on Johnny Morris Road near U.S. 290 around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, after employees reported they found Strimple dead on the conveyor belt. ...

A similar incident was reported in December, when the body of 62-year-old Randall Shinault was found on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in Creedmoor. ...

Sheriff's office investigators said Shinault was experiencing homelessness. ...

Last March, the body of 31-year-old Collen LeBlanc also was found on a conveyor belt at the recycling center on Johnny Morris Road. ...

An investigation did not point to foul play in LeBlanc's case, authorities had said.

In April 2015, the body of 49-year-old Clarence Gerald Gardner Jr. was found at the Texas Disposal Systems recycling center in Creedmoor. His body was spotted on a conveyor belt by workers who were separating cardboard from other items that had been collected.

Mark Kenady, 56, pleaded guilty in Gardner’s death. Kenady and Gardner were both homeless. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.statesman.com/story/new...in-area-recycling-plant-past-year/7004698002/
 
Are Austin recycling centres easy to get into? Are they open all night? Might explain why they're attracting these men, if not why they died.
 
Are Austin recycling centres easy to get into? Are they open all night? Might explain why they're attracting these men, if not why they died.
The bodies were all discovered among the incoming rubbish being sorted on the facilities' conveyor belts. They weren't dumped at the facilities; they'd been in bins or dumpsters and arrived among the collection trucks' loads.
 
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