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There are few stories as peculiarly morbid as the case of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, the man discovered trapped behind a set of store shelves some 10 years after he disappeared.
According to reports from the time, Larry was declared missing on November 28, 2009, when his parents had grown concerned after he fled his home in a distressed state, barefoot during a blizzard without his keys and car, and failed to return.
Larry was 25 years old at the time, employed at the No Frills supermarket in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Though a search soon got underway, no trace of the missing man was found. His family had little to console them following his vanishing. Indeed, it simply seemed as though he had disappeared into thin air one day.
According to the BBC, relatives of Larry had revealed that he was suffering from hallucinations at the time of his disappearance.
“He was hearing voices that said ‘eat sugar’,” his mother said, via a translator.
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“He felt his heart was beating too hard and thought if he ate sugar, his heart would not beat so hard.”
According to Council Bluffs Police Captain Todd Weddum, Larry’s parents believed he was possibly acting strangely due to the medication he was taking.
Then, a decade later, in 2019, a tragic discovery changed everything.