Two Texas teenagers have been arrested and charged by local authorities after they posted a video to Snapchat showing themselves stealing the necklace from a dead body.
Bethany Martin , who is 17 years old (pictured above, inset), and a new 16-year-old friend (not publicly named or pictured because she is a juvenile) were out walking last Monday when they happened upon a man’ s corpse in a drainage ditch, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’ s Office , based in San Antonio.
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The girls admitted to authorities that they were walking through a recently-developed neighborhood whenever they saw “ something awkward by the drainage ditch and went to take a closer look. ” Then, upon finding the body, instead of calling police, they called a male friend of theirs who joined them at the scene.
At some point, the 16-year-old spotted a necklace on the deceased man’ s neck, and decided that she liked it because “ it matched her fashion style. ” So, Martin told investigators that she removed the necklace carefully, “ making sure not to touch the body, ” while the younger teenager used the 17-year-old’ s phone to film the particular ordeal and post it to Snapchat.
Did… did these people not realize they were committing a crime?? Why would they will post that??
Eventually, the video made its way onto the Nextdoor app, where neighbors within and around the development shared the clip with law enforcement. Apparently, a family member related to the deceased man was also one of the ones who happened in order to view the video — without knowing beforehand the identity of typically the victim.
Unbelievable…
After being called to the scene, the sheriff’ s office identified the deceased man as 25-year-old Marcus Adams . His death has been ruled a suicide.
Upon learning of the Snapchat video from tips on this Nextdoor app, law enforcement arrested Martin on Tuesday and charged her as an adult with felony theft from a human corpse or grave. She’ h since been released on $2, 000 bail; the 16-year-old was also arrested and faces the same charges, but as a juvenile.
Sheriff Javier Salazar (pictured above) spoke to the media about often the disturbing incident, and even he was clearly shaken up over what transpired:
“ When my homicide sergeant pulled me aside and said ‘ I’ m going to show you video that’ s going to be able to be very, very disturbing. ’ And he showed me your video and it was… I’ m shook! I am still shook. I’ m disturbed simply by it. If it weren’ t on video? I wouldn’ t believe that it happened. It was disturbing because they’ re laughing. ‘ I can’ t believe you’ re doing this, ’ plus words to that effect, treating it as a joke. ”
Wow… Talk about heartless.
Marcus Adams Sr. , the dead man’ s father, also spoke to the media about the terrible incident, telling KENS 5 News (below):
“ It’ t bad enough to steal from the living. But to steal from the dead? He’ s i9000 helpless. He’ s no longer here. He couldn’ t fight back. ”
According to the law enforcement arrest affidavit, the necklace has since been returned to Adams’ family.
Still, exactly what a terrible thing for his poor family to go through. What were these girls thinking?!
Ugh…
[Image via KENS 5 News/ YouTube / Bexar County Sheriff’s Office ]
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