Body found in trunk of car sold at Lynnwood auction

Workers at Braven Metals process about 10,000 vehicles every year.

Scrapyard workers routinely go through the abandoned cars they buy at auction before recycling the metal.

They come across all kinds of stuff, but this was a first.

"I haven't come across something like that before," said Braven HR Director Michael Smith. "I didn't know what to think when my name was called on the radio and I got called to take a look and see what was going on."

Workers discovered the body of a man last Thursday after buying a 2002 Ford Explorer at an auction in Lynnwood.

"To me it looked like he may have been staying in his vehicle," Smith said. "There was a sleeping bag."

The SUV was supposed to have been inspected by a third party prior to its arrival, but somehow it slipped through the cracks.

Witnesses said it's unclear how long the man had been in the SUV or how he died.

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