Body in storage unit for 17 years

A woman's body found in a Clearwater, Florida storage unit may have been stored there 17 years ago, WTSP in Tampa reports.

When Ann Bunch died in 1995, the family had her body prepared for burial at a funeral home in Alabama but then ran out of money. Bunch's daughter, Bobbie Barnett Hancock, decided to place the body in a special container in a unit at U-Stor Self Storage in Clearwater. As Hancock was dying of cancer last year, she told her daughter, Rebecca Ann Fancher, what she had done. Fancher is Bunch's granddaughter.

"She started telling me what she'd done about a month before she died in August," said Fancher, 54. After the manager of the storage facility warned that the contents of the storage unit would be auctioned off for non-payment of rent, Fancher admitted to him that the unit contained a body.

Police found skeletal remains inside the storage unit, and those remains have been sent to a funeral and cremation service. Fancher is not expected to face criminal charges.