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Updated: 10:33 a.m. ET Feb. 8, 2006
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - A collaborator on the children’s book series Curious George has been found dead on the driveway of his mobile home in Florida.
Police say Allen Shalleck’s body was covered in black garbage bags. Neighbors had passed by for a least a day, thinking it was just trash.
Investigators haven’t released any details of the death. But the timing is an odd curiosity, as a Universal Pictures animated movie about the mischievous monkey opens in theaters Friday, with Will Ferrell as the voice of the Man in the Yellow Hat, George's amiable owner and friend.
Shalleck, 76, co-edited more than 28 Curious George books and helped write and direct 104 short films. The Westchester County, N.Y., native worked at a Borders Books & Music in Boynton Beach, but had not shown up for work in two days, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Shalleck's body was discovered by Burt Venturelli, a maintenance supervisor at the retirement complex where the author and producer lived.
“I went to drag it this morning and said `This is a body, this isn't garbage,’” Venturelli told the Sun-Sentinel. Venturelli said the body was naked from the waist up: “I could see blood all over the place.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - A collaborator on the children’s book series Curious George has been found dead on the driveway of his mobile home in Florida.
Police say Allen Shalleck’s body was covered in black garbage bags. Neighbors had passed by for a least a day, thinking it was just trash.
Investigators haven’t released any details of the death. But the timing is an odd curiosity, as a Universal Pictures animated movie about the mischievous monkey opens in theaters Friday, with Will Ferrell as the voice of the Man in the Yellow Hat, George's amiable owner and friend.
Shalleck, 76, co-edited more than 28 Curious George books and helped write and direct 104 short films. The Westchester County, N.Y., native worked at a Borders Books & Music in Boynton Beach, but had not shown up for work in two days, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Shalleck's body was discovered by Burt Venturelli, a maintenance supervisor at the retirement complex where the author and producer lived.
“I went to drag it this morning and said `This is a body, this isn't garbage,’” Venturelli told the Sun-Sentinel. Venturelli said the body was naked from the waist up: “I could see blood all over the place.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Another banana related death.
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