Murderer Shelled Out!
Corn Barn Vanishes!
cornf.jpg (34631 bytes) Friedheim, IN-Excitement reigned in this small Indiana community today at the long awaited apprehension of the murderer of Corn Guy. Zea L. Mays, Corn Guy’s half sister the sweet corn, will be arraigned at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in Decatur.

Sources say that a total of 6,720 deputies were used from July 11- October 31 to search for clues in one of the largest manhunts ever in this part of the county.

Although several people were listed as suspects during the course of the investigation, it turned out that an outsider committed the crime.

"I always figured it had to be an outside job," commented Farmer Mike who had once headed the list of suspects. "I couldn’t believe anyone from the country would have wasted corn that way."

Bob the Butcher concurred. "People ‘round here like their veggies and aren’t likely to have harvested before their time. We knew it couldn’t be one of us."

 

 The Sheriff’s department spokesman reports in a press conference held this date that the investigation reached a turning point in mid-September when the weather cooled and increasing numbers of deputy volunteers showed up to hunt for clues. New evidence was uncovered in early October as well which was really scary and then the investigation unfolded quickly.

The evidence suggests the crime was committed in a fit of jealousy over Corn Guy’s newfound infamy. "She just couldn’t handle that her brother, who she’d always looked down on as made for silage, was now so popular.

Ms. Mays first became a suspect when a corn silk compact, marked with the logo of the Corn Palace in Omaha where she was known to perform, was found near the scene of the crime. Later fiber analysis of silken blonde hairs found near the body pointed directly at her as the culprit.

The site of the murder was, of course, the a-maze-ing corn barn found by Mike Werling at the beginning of the summer of 1999. This barn was believed to be the reincarnation of his great-great-grandfather’s barn of 100 years previous. Ironically, police report that soon after the final resolution of the murder case, the barn disappeared as mysteriously as it first materialized.