Re: Woman's Body Found On Ice At 4-Diamond Hotel UPDATE

Stephen David Royds:
Man found with body on ice speaks briefly from jail; claims religious
reasons
The Orange County Register, USA
Mar. 9, 2008
Jaimee Fletcher, Jeff Overley, Erika I. Richie and Courtney Perkes
"Everything that happened was for religious reasons," Stephen David Royds
told a reporter.

Royds, whose eyes were weary and bloodshot, repeated the statement four
times. He declined to say more.

The body of Monique Felicia Trepp was discovered in Room 966 at the Fairmont
Hotel just before midnight Thursday, shortly after narcotics investigators
say they arrested Royds with a small amount of cocaine.

John Browning from Brown Colonial Mortuary said people are not legally
required to go to a mortuary to bury their dead.

"The body legally can stay home until they want to deliver the body (to the
cemetery) on their own," he said in an interview today.

Browning said he did not know the exact number of days that is permitted,
but he estimated it is about three.

He also said sometimes Brown Colonial get requests, before people die, to
leave their body untouched for three days. He said it's a "personal
preference." He did not believe the request is tied to a particular
religion.

Public records paint a drug-filled portrait of both Trepp and Royds.

Trepp, 33, was wanted on several narcotics charges in Colorado, court
records show.

Royds, 46, also has a rap sheet, and according to police used the alias of
Mel Profitt - virtually the same name of a manic-depressive drug kingpin in
the 1987 season of television's "Wiseguy."

After being arrested late Thursday on charges of cocaine possession and
sales, Royds was sent to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian for "some
medical condition," Newport Beach police Sgt. Jerry Lowe said.

He was booked Saturday afternoon at Orange County Jail in Santa Ana, where
he was ineligible for bail because of a suspected probation violation. He is
to be arraigned on the drug charge Monday, and has not been either
implicated or cleared in Trepp's death.

"He is being interviewed about what may have happened," said Sgt. Evan
Sailor.

<SNIP> Entire article at URL below:

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20844/stephen-david-royds


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