"His Skin Had Fallen Off His Body": Man Roasts to Death in Faulty Sauna
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A 68-year-old man in North Miami Beach, Florida roasted to death on Sunday after getting into a sauna at his condominium and not making it out. His family went to check on him after a few hours, and found his body had roasted to look like "jerky."
After a few hours of not hearing from her father, Dennis Antiporek's daughter went to check on him at the sauna, saying she was concerned he hadn't called her. What she found was unbelievably horrifying. Via CBS Miami:
She opened the door and said she saw a man whose skin was a dark color. She didn't realize it was actually her light-skinned father of Polish and Russian descent until she noticed his clothing hanging up nearby, according to CBS Miami.
"I close my eyes and I just see his face charred," his wife of 49 years Ronnie Antiporek told the station. "And this sounds horrible, but there was skin on the floor and on the bench, and we shouldn't have had to see that."
Investigators are looking into how the faulty sauna resulted in Antiporek's death. Joseph Madalon, the lawyer who is representing Antiporek's family, told the Daily News, "the timer on the sauna was broken and the coils in the machine malfunctioned, causing the temperatures to be much higher than normal." This may have caused the man to have a heart attack, preventing him from leaving the room.
Madalon said that Antiporek had been "totally broiled" and that his "skin had fallen off his body."
Lara Antiporek, the man's daughter, said that she can't get that image out of her head.
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