Two daughters found their father’s remains in a trash bag under his house, authorities said, after using dental records to confirm the identity of the remains.
The Horry County Coroner’s Office confirmed the identity on June 19.
The bag was found under a home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
Clodfelter’s wife, Irene Clodfelter, was arrested and charged with obstructing justice, desecration of human remains, and accessory after the fact of murder.
She said that her son, who is also dead, killed her husband.
She kept getting money from her husband’s tenants “that she used to support her lifestyle,” officials wrote in the warrant.
At a bond hearing, the daughters who found the bag said they found it on June 14.
“My heart also aches with anger that Irene could do to dad what she has admitted to doing. No one, no one deserves to rot in a garbage bag with his wife above him enjoying her life. No child deserves to open a bag and see her father like that. I am no longer able to sleep without fear of the dreams I have been having. I am no longer able to go through my day without the memory of the smell, and the bugs, and the site of his flesh and feel it on my skin. I am no longer able to live my life without the fear that she will hunt me down and shoot me, or hire someone else to do it.”
She said that she would call her father’s phone but it was always answered by his wife, who would make excuses as to why he couldn’t speak to her. One of the excuses was that he was on the run from the police.
One of the daughters, Karen, said that she sent birthday cards and other mail, hoping they would reach her father.
“The deception and the lies and the falsehoods she told us were hurtful,” Karen added.
Clodfelter’s attorney John Hillard said he is planning an aggressive defense strategy.
