James Browns body is missing from crypt: daughter

One of Browns daughters reportedly claims that the singers body has gone missing from its crypt part of an elaborate plot to prevent her from carrying out an autopsy that will determine whether he was really killed.


My daddys body has disappeared. I have no clue where it was taken, but I need to know where, said LaRhonda Pettit, 48. Im convinced his death was suspicious and I want the people responsible brought to justice.


The R&B great famous for his feverish dance moves and songs like Papas Got A Brand New Bag and Its A Mans Mans Mans World died on Dec. 25, 2006 at age 73.


Pettit said the official cause of her fathers death determined by doctors to be a heart attack brought on by a bout with pneumonia is not the real reason behind the passing of The Godfather of Soul.


The only way to do that is to exhume his body and have an autopsy, Pettit said in an interview with The Globe newspaper. I cannot understand why one was never conducted.


Browns body was sealed in a crypt at the South Carolina home of his daughter Deanna Brown-Thomas while arrangements are made for a permanent grave.