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Chicago Woman Lived With Dead Siblings For 20 Years

Posted by Brett Singer

An eldery Chicago woman was living with the skeletons and corpses of her dead siblings. For 20 years.I need to stop saying that I’m beyond being surprised. Because this story was definitely surprising.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - An elderly woman has been living with two skeletons and a badly decomposed body of her siblings in a suburb of Chicago, one of whom may have died at least 20 years ago, authorities said on Saturday.
The remains were found covered by sheets in various parts of the house in Evanston on Friday but no foul play was suspected.
Authorities said one of the siblings was last seen alive in the 1980s, the second in 2003 and the third in May.

The over 90-year-old woman was taken to "a facility"; I hope it was psychiatric in nature. What could possibly cause someone to keep decaying bodies and skeletons in their home? Very sad.

Source: Reuters

Image: Chicagoist, via Google Maps

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Posted Nov 12 2008, 10:00 AM
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Comments

 

knockedup said:

Given the likely times of the various siblings' deaths, it sounds like, from the 80s - 2003, she wasn't the only one living with bodies.  Assuming they all lived together, three of the siblings lived with the body of the one who passed away in the 80s for years.  Wow.

November 12, 2008 10:44 AM
 

Kris said:

The truly creepy part is that three living siblings failed to report the first's death.  Can you imagine being the third one? By then he or she had to know that their corpse would just be left to rot in the house.

November 12, 2008 10:59 AM
 

Brett Singer said:

Yow. You're right. Someone didn't report the first death, and then they all just kind of hung out with the bodies. I'd say that its like The Addams Family or The Munsters, but even they never did that.

November 12, 2008 11:41 AM
 

Kris said:

You know, I've been thinking about this and I wonder if they continued collecting on the dead siblings' Social Security. That would at least be a "reason" for why they did this. Evanston is not cheap, even if you own the house free and clear, the property taxes would be around $6-7K a year, plus utilities, etc.

November 12, 2008 3:10 PM

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