Random People Who Were Found Living with Dead Bodies (14 items)

• (#7) Widower Leaves Corpse In Bed For Five Months

  In 2005, husband Howard Lewis, 68, kept his wife, Elizabeth's, passing a secret from friends and neighbors. He went on working at a shop in South Wales, and when asked, said she was "fine." When police were finally called in after five months of no-sees, they found the body of Elizabeth, 79, still in the bed where she passed. Friends speculated Howard was in shock and denial.
• (#4) Legally Blind Brooklyn Hoarder Unknowingly Lived With Her Son's Corpse

  “It’s like some reverse Psycho scene,” an unnamed law enforcement official told Fox News after a woman in Brooklyn was found living with her son's corpse in September, 2016. The woman, Rita Wolfensohn, a legally blind hoarder, may not even have been aware her son passed in her house.

  The remains were discovered by Josette Buchman, Wolfensohn's sister-in-law, who found what was described as a "completely intact" human skeleton wearing jeans, socks, and a shirt, lying on a mattress, surrounded by clutter. The state of decay indicated the man pass maybe 20 years prior.
• (#8) Father Hides Wife's Self-Induced Passing From Children

  One Sunday night in 2011, Parthasarathy argued with his wife, beat her soundly, and left the room. When he returned some time later, he found his wife, Saraswathi, hanging from the ceiling fan with a noose made of her sari. Rather than call for help, he cut her down himself, and she passed soon after. For the next four days, he kept his wife's body locked in the bedroom, slept in the hallway, and told his children (8 and 5) that their mom was sick. Neighbors eventually called police to investigate the foul smell of her decomposition.
• (#11) Grieving Widow Sleeps Next To Husband For A Year

  In November 2013, a grieving Belgian widow was discovered to have been living with her husband's body for nearly a year. Too traumatized to report his passing, the woman, 69, slept beside her husband, Marcel's, corpse, despite its smell and advanced stages of decomposition. The couple was discovered when a landlord noted they hadn't paid their rent since 2012. Marcel, 79, was suspected to have passed of an asthma attack.
• (#2) Woman Makes Boyfriend's Corpse NASCAR Buddy

  When 67-year-old Charles Zigler passed in December 2010, that didn’t put an end to his TV-watching days. His longtime girlfriend, Linda Chase, kept his mummified corpse propped up in a living room chair, glassy eyes trained on the fast cars going in circles on the screen. When police discovered Zigler’s body in 2012 - 18 months post-mortem - Chase admitted she had been cashing his social security checks. “I’m probably going to prison,” she said.
• (#3) Man Turns Wife's Corpse Into Real Doll

  After Le Van’s wife passed and was buried in 2003, he began sleeping on top of her grave every night. When the weather got nasty, he dug a tunnel down to the casket so he wouldn’t get rained on. In November 2004 - more than a year later - he finally dug up the body and took it on home. To keep his wife’s corpse nice and fresh, Van molded her skin with plaster and clay and dressed her up. In 2009, he reported that she slept on the bed with him.

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