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A DECADE-LONG COLD CASE TAKES A BIZARRE TWIST AT THIS FORMER NO FRILLS STORE. COUNCIL BLUFFS POLICE BELIEVE LARRY MURILLO-MONCADA CLIMBED A COOLER AND SOMEHOW FELL BEHIND IT, LEAVING HIM TRAPPED. POLICE SAY THE GAP WAS ABOUT 18 INCHES BETWEEN THE COOLER AND THE WALL. >> I WAS INFORMED THAT SOMETIMES EMPLOYEES WOULD RANDOMLY GO UP AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND BE UP ON THE UNIT, AND WE BELIEVE THAT HE MAY HAVE ACCIDENTALLY FALLEN BEHIND THE UNIT. DALAUN: EMPLOYEES SAY LARRY WASN’T SCHEDULED TO WORK THAT DAY, SO NO ONE KNEW HE WAS THERE. HOURS BEFORE HE VANISHED, HIS PARENTS TOLD POLICE HE WAS UPSET AND RAN OUT OF THEIR HOME. >> THE MOTHER HAD AN IDEA THAT HE HAD NEVER LEFT THE NO FRILLS. I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE CAME UP WITH THAT IDEA, BUT THEY WERE PRETTY UPSET. DALAUN: INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE HIS DEATH WAS AN ACCIDENT. THEY CALL THIS ONE OF THE ODDEST CASES THEY’VE WORKED ON. >> YOU DONT HEAR ABOUT THESE TYPE OF CASES, PEOPLE FOUND IN WALLS, ESPECIALLY IN THIS AREA, SO THAT WOULD BE THE ODD PART ABOUT IT. WE HAVE MISSING PERSON CASES ALL THE TIME, BUT THIS IS JUST UNIQUE. DALAUN: IT IS ALSO UNIQUE BECAUSE HIS EXACT CAUSE OF DEATH IS STILL UNKNOWN. IOWA MEDICAL EXAMINERS HAVE ORDERED AN AUTOPSY. THE STATE LAB WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM BY USING DNA FROM HIS PARENTS. THE NO FRILLS STORE ON WEST BR

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Police have identified a body discovered in a former No Frills Supermarket.Last week, the Council Bluffs Police Department received information from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Criminalistics Laboratory regarding the identity the body, which was located Jan. 24 in the vacant store at 1817 West Broadway.The victim was identified as Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, of Council Bluffs. The State Lab was able to make a positive identification by using DNA from Murillo’s biological parents. On Nov. 28, 2009, Murillo’s parents reported him missing after he became upset and ran out of their home; he was 25 years old at the time of that report. "The mother had an idea that he has never left 'No Frills'," said Sgt. Brandon Danielson. "I don't know how she came up with that idea, but were pretty upset." Larry was employed at No Frills Supermarket at the time of his disappearance. The autopsy indicated no signs of trauma. Former employees of No Frills Supermarket said it was common for workers to be on top of the coolers, as the space was utilized for storage of goods. Investigators believe Murillo went to the store after leaving his home and climbed on top of the coolers, where he fell into an approximate 18 inch gap between the back of the cooler and a wall, becoming trapped. The case is being closed and classified as an accidental death. “You don’t hear about these types of cases, people found in walls,” Danielson said. “Especially in this area. so that would be the odd part of about. We have missing person cases all the time, but this is just unique.”Jan. 24 Council Bluffs police said officers responded to a call from the No Frills Supermarket at 1817 West Broadway Thursday for a death investigation.The body was found while a contract firm was removing the store's shelving and coolers. Officials said the body appeared to have been there for an extended period of time.Police said the Iowa State Medical Examiner's Office has ordered an autopsy, which will be done at the office's facility in Ankeny.The No Frills Supermarket location at West Broadway closed in 2016.