Tennessee man arrested after wrapping dead mom’s body in tarp, driving to Nashville hospital: police

A Tennessee man who wrapped a body believed to be his dead mother in a tarp and drove with it in the back of his truck hours away to a Nashville hospital claimed she had committed suicide in the woods, authorities said Sunday.

He claimed that his mother shot herself in a wooded area in Chattanooga, a city in Hamilton County located over a hundred miles southeast of Nashville. Henshall said that he picked up his girlfriend, whom police did not name, at 8:30 a.m. with the body already in the truck.

Henshall and his girlfriend said they stopped for food, gas and coffee before driving the body to a VA medical facility in Chattanooga, which they said was closed, authorities said.