Horrifying simulation shows what happened to man who got stuck behind a fridge for 10 years

In 2019, a team of workers were busy removing shelves and freezers from the closed down No Frills store in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

The supermarket had been shut down in 2016 and was finally being cleared out when the team found human remains wedged in a gap behind one of the fridges.

Thanks to DNA testing from his parents, the body was identified as belonging to Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, a man who had gone missing in 2009.

That meant he'd been dead in the store for seven years, while it was still open, and a further three after it closed down for good.

Investigators found no signs of foul play or suspicious activity and deduced that Larry had slipped into the 18 inch gap between the fridge and the wall and become trapped there.

25-year-old Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada was thought to have fallen between the fridge and the wall and become trapped. (Council Bluffs Police Department)

His relatives reported him missing the day after Thanksgiving 2009, saying he left his parents' house barefoot and hallucinating during a blizzard.

The clothing on the body matched the description given at the time of his disappearance.

Larry had worked at the store and former workers said it wasn't unusual for employees to climb atop the units to stock them.

The fridge was about 12-feet tall and any of the 25-year-old's attempts to shout for help would have been drowned out by the noise of the cooling unit. His death was ruled to be an accident.

A rather horrifying simulation of what happened to Larry lays out how awful it would have been for the 25-year-old to be stuck on the other side of a fridge with no way out and nobody hearing him.

Some were doubtful of the horrific story, wondering how people wouldn't have smelled Larry's body when he spent a whole decade trapped behind the fridge.

However, what happened to him is very much true and his body spent several years behind the fridge, while the store was still open and operating with people walking right by where he was.

That he wasn't found for 10 years and his body was only discovered when the store was being cleared out indicates how hard it would have been to find him.

People getting stuck in places they then can't get out of are sometimes said to have the 'worst death imaginable'.

Some people who get trapped are fortunate enough to have a way of calling for help and are able to survive, but for Larry, nobody could hear him and nobody even knew that he was down there.

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