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April 29, 2004
CHEVY CHASE AND BEVERLY D'ANGELO WILL STAR IN THE MOVIE
Sometimes, truth catches up to movie scripts. In a scene straight out of National Lampoon's Vacation, a woman drove around the country for days with her dead and decomposing mother in the car.
Sheriff's deputies found the woman's body Tuesday in a car parked outside a Wal-Mart store in the northeast Florida city of Palm Coast. The medical examiner ruled the 65-year-old woman had died of natural causes at least five days earlier.... Police went to investigate when other shoppers complained about the odor coming from the parked car.
They traced the auto registration and pieced together details of the trip from receipts found in the car. The women had lived together in Covington, Oklahoma, and left there several weeks ago. They traveled through Texas and North Carolina on the 1,300-mile trip to Florida, the investigators said. It was not clear if the mother died at a stop-off or in in the car.
Other reports suggest that the trip had taken so long because the woman had been following a red convertible sports car driven by Christie Brinkley all around the country.
