Box Containing Woman’s Body Found In Cornfield
The box was likely thrown from a helicopter. The Box Lady of Benton County remains unidentified.
Norman Skoog owned a cornfield in the small town of Otterbein, in Benton County, Indiana. He was harvesting corn in the late afternoon of October 8, 1976, when he nearly ran his combine over a box that was mysteriously lying nine rows deep into the field.
The white cardboard box was located 15 yards off of Benton County Road 200 South and 6 miles north of Otterbein. The 3-by-2-by-1-foot box was sealed with tape and rope.
Too heavy to lift on his own, Norman got his father-in-law to help him place it in the back of a pickup truck and they drove it to their nearby home. Curtis Skoog, Norman’s teenage son, was mowing the yard when they passed by him. He could smell something foul coming from the truck.
Curtis joined the men and jumped onto the back of the pickup. Slowly, he began to open the box. The first thing he noticed was a broken vial of perfume which seemed to have been placed inside to cover up the foul smell. There were also wads of plastic wrap secured together with knotted ropes.
Norman asked his son to not open the box any further. He was alarmed and called the authorities. When police arrived, they fully opened the mysterious package. Norman had been right…
