Casey Kasem Death and Funeral Update: Judge Orders Restraining Order on Widow
While Casey Kasem continues to be not buried, his family keeps fighting for him.
According to TMZ, "family sources" believe Casey's widow, Jean Kasem, removed his body from the Washington funeral home where he was being held. This happened before a judge ruled that Jean could not move the body or get it cremated.
TMZ added that Jean also is nowhere to be found.
While other sources don't mention the body being missing, they do talk about Casey's daughter Kerri being granted a restraining order against her stepmother.
Judge Ronald Culpepper ordered that Casey's body not be moved until it's autopsied. Kerri had said she thought her stepmother might try to take his remains to Canada or have him cremated.
The funeral home director told Kerri that Jean wanted to have an autopsy done.
"I'm concerned about the result of any autopsy Jean Kasem may have commissioned and how they might be used," Kerri wrote in petitioning the Pierce County Superior Court for a temporary restraining order against Jean, which she got. "Consequently, I thought it would be best to ask the Washington Court to allow me to have an autopsy conducted by a forensic pathologist of my own selection."
Kerri also believes Casey died because Jean tried to keep Casey away from his family and so took him on a weeklong car ride, which is where Kerri thinks he got bed sores, which factored in his death, the Daily Mail noted.
Kerri and Jean have been fighting for Casey since at least last year.
In October, Fox interviewed Kerri, who said she had no idea why her stepmother wouldn't let her see her father. At that point, she hadn't seen him in about three months.
"He's very sick with Parkinson's," she said at the time. "He can't talk. The last time I saw him he could maybe utter yes or no. He needs help walking but this was three months ago. We don't know how much he's deteriorated. We don't know about his medical care. We don't have phone numbers for his caretakers, we don't have phone numbers to the house. We're not allowed to know who his doctors are. We're pretty scared at this point."
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