Chicago Woman Lived With Dead Siblings For 20 Years

re: Chicago Woman Lived With Dead Siblings For 20 Years

Kris — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:10:56 GMT

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.

re: Chicago Woman Lived With Dead Siblings For 20 Years

Brett Singer — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:57 GMT

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.

re: Chicago Woman Lived With Dead Siblings For 20 Years

Kris — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:59:01 GMT

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.

re: Chicago Woman Lived With Dead Siblings For 20 Years

knockedup — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:44:33 GMT

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.