claim: A man killed and ate his wife after being stuck in an elevator for 71 hours.
origin: On 18 April 2017, the entertainment web site World News Daily Report published a fake news article claiming that Bruce Franklin, a Philadelphia man, killed and ate his wife after being stuck in an elevator for 71 hours: < 44-year old Bruce Franklin was arrested this morning, after he confessed to killing his wife and eating her flesh while he was stuck with her in an elevator. According to the Philadelphia Police Department, the partially devoured corpse of his wife was lying next to him when he was rescued after being stuck for three days in an elevator. > There is no truth to this story. The World News Daily Report is a well-knownÂ fake news web site with a long history of peddling misinformation. The site carries a disclaimer labeling its content as fiction: < World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website â€“ even those based on real people â€“ are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is purely a miracle. > As with many of its fake news stories, The World News Daily Report used photographs from unrelated events in order to lend credence to its claims: Another image in the article shows Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross, correctly identified byÂ WNDR, but the photograph was taken during a City Council budget hearing in April 2016, not a press event concerning a man who just ate his wife. The final photograph in the article,Â of the elevator shaft, was taken inside the National Lift Tower in Northampton, England.