Body of man decomposed in car with small arsenal at home

This story is just gonzo and as Slate points out it has a bit of everything:

• The man's body was found decomposing in a parked car.
• No one initially could figure out who he was.
• When he was tentatively identified, police found 1,200 guns and FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS  OF AMMUNITION in a home belonging to his fiancée, who says she was together with the man—named Jeffrey Alan Lash—for 17 years and that she believed he was a secret agent.
• There are 14 vehicles registered to Lash, including one that can drive underwater.
• He also had $230,000 in cash.
• Lash's fiancée, Catherine Nebron, was with him when he died, in the parking lot of a grocery store, and she parked his body on a street and left because he told her one of the secret agencies he worked for would pick him up.
• Then she went to Oregon with her friends.

We start with this:

Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and $230,000 in cash after he was found on Friday. They also located eight of the 14 vehicles stashed around Los Angeles registered to the man, including an SUV designed to drive underwater
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There's no indication the man was doing anything illegal with the weapons, LAPD Deputy Chief of Detectives Kirk Albanese said. Detectives were reviewing everything, but so far the guns appeared to be registered to him. Many were still in boxes or had price tags.

Braun said Nebron and two friends were in a car at a supermarket early July 4, when Lash felt hot and had trouble breathing.

"He wouldn't go to a hospital and didn't want any 911 call," Braun said. When he died, Nebron parked him in a car down the street from the condo they shared, the lawyer said.

Authorities don't believe there was any foul play involved, but won't give a cause until there is more investigation.

Lash told Nebron the government agencies would take care of his body and the items in the home, so Nebron and her friends took a trip to Oregon, distraught.

When they returned about 10 days later, Nebron was shocked to still see Lash's body in the car.

She contacted Braun, and together they called police, who found the body, guns and more.

KTLA fills in more details:

Neighbors in the Palisades Highlands condominium development said a male and female couple lived in the home.

“The fact that they were so secretive naturally aroused the interests and suspicions of those of use who observed what was going on,” said neighbor Ed Grastorf. “They really hid quite effectively the fact that they had armaments in the house.”

Defense attorney Harland Braun — known in part for his celebrity clients and for successfully defending the LAPD officers from criminal charges in the 1991 Rodney King beating — confirmed he was representing a woman who lived at the home. He said he had no comment on the situation.

Two days later, things begin to take a turn towards the bizarre,

A man who lived in a home filled with guns and whose decomposed body was found in an SUV in Pacific Palisades was believed to be a human/alien hybrid secretly working with the U.S. government by his fiancée and a missing Oxnard woman who worked for her, according to the fiancée’s  mother.
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VadBunker’s mother believes her 39-year-old daughter has been caught in the middle of a mysterious death investigation and may be suffering from a mental breakdown.  According to Laura VadBunker, her daughter believes Lash was an alien “sent to earth to protect us.”

“I can’t believe this,” Laura VadBunker told KTLA in a telephone interview. “It’s worse than a Twilight Zone movie and we’ve lived through hell.”
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Lash did not want to be taken to a hospital or have anyone call 911, Braun said.

Nebron and Dawn VadBunker believed Lash was a secret government agent, but not entirely human.

“He was part alien and part human and was out to save the world,” Laura VadBunker said.

Nebron didn’t notify authorities when Lash died because she thought the secret agencies he worked for would come and collect his body, she told Braun.

KTLA again fills in some more details,

A third lawyer, Robert Rentzer, told KTLA he had represented Lash for nearly 20 years, often in connection with his client’s firearms. Lash was simply a gun collector and very private man, Rentzer said.

“A lot of people would call him odd because of his overwhelming desire for privacy,” Rentzer said at his Tarzana office. “Some people considered him a little weird.”

But Rentzer called the belief that Lash was a secret agent or an alien “laughable.”

Nonetheless, he said he didn’t know what Lash did for a living or how he afforded his extensive gun collection.

People sure do and believe strange things.  I will be eagerly awaiting any update!!

Body of man decomposed in car with small arsenal at home