News about Carlos Maldonado

Carmen Maldonado died two days after her 96th birthday in May telling relatives she wanted to be buried next to her husband in Ecuador. Her family thought her body was still at the Rivera Funeral Home in Queens when they saw a Guatemalan news report of a young widow wondering why an old woman was in a coffin supposed to be holding the body of her 38-year-old husband. Carmen's family are now suing the funeral home after recovering the elderly woman's body from the widow and taking it to the South American country another 1,500 miles to the south.

Carlos Maldonado said he sculpted the Jaws-like snow carving with his two sons, which took them almost five hours to complete. He spent another hour and a half to color it with diluted acrylic paint the following day. 'I didn't really want to do something plain,' the sculptor, who is the artist of Carlos Maldonado Artwork in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.