Dallas police investigate death, missing gold teeth

Source: Dallas Morning News

As far back as his kids can remember, Leonard Brown's gold teeth shined below his upper lip.

Leonard Brown

"If anything ever happens to me, don't let them bury me with these in my mouth," he would tell them. They cost too much, he said, to put in the ground.

In December, just before his 80th birthday, Mr. Brown developed a persistent cough. His daughter checked him into Methodist Charlton Medical Center.

While Mr. Brown was inside the intensive care unit, those shiny gold teeth went missing. By then, he was unresponsive and unable to say what happened to them. But his daughter, 37-year-old Carol Pena, told police someone must have pulled them from his mouth.

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Tough Economic Times continue in Texas

guard the fillings in their teeth because the government would be coming after them next. Hell, apparently they're fair game for anybody with a pair of plyers.

based on what I heard on the morning news. They must have fallen out while he was brushing his teeth, they said. Sure....

...that someone held him down for some reason.

What an awful story.