One day the butcher decided to go through with the experiment. The butcher kept the little girl in the cellar for nine days, feeding her meat scraps so she would get nice and fat. On the tenth morning the butcher made his way to the cellar. As the key fit into the door, the butcher suddenly suffered a heart attack. Since it was Fourth of July weekend, no one came into the store that weekend and the butcher's body was not found until four days later when the newspaper boy arrived. The authorities eventually cleared the scene but a putrid smell lingered, or rather, wafted from the cellar. The little girl was found there chewing on maggoty scraps of meat.