KGS
November 8, 2008, 7:53pm
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Okay, this story’s just plain weird:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081108/ap_on_re_us/evanston_deaths;_ylt=AqnmW9k5XoiTh1D.Hu2x0XPLLJ94
A 90-year-old woman well-liked by her neighbors apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s, police say. […]
Autopsies were planned but Guenther said police do not suspect foul play. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said it could be some time before causes of death can be determined because the deaths occurred so long ago.
Neighbors described the woman as alert and aware, and said she was well liked on their close-knit block of large, historic homes. She enjoyed gardening and shared her plants with others, they said.
There’s an older woman in my neighborhood who’s happy & friendly and enjoys gardening, just like this woman. But she’s never invited me into her apartment. Hmm…
All of this uproar could have been avoided if she’d been more into composting.
…the bodies of three siblings…
…Her identity was not released…
…The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified the dead as Anita Bernstorff, who was last seen alive in May 2008, Frank Bernstorff, not seen alive since 2003, and Elaine Bernstorff, who was last seen alive in the early 1980s.
Unless the three siblings aren’t HER siblings, I think she’d be pretty easy to identify!
Folacin
November 8, 2008, 10:32pm
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Family tradition, apparently - since presumably three of them lived with Elaine’s body for 10 years, and then Anita and ?? kept Frank for an additional five years.
Fish
November 8, 2008, 10:34pm
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I was wondering that too, unless she found a way to lure them there shortly before their deaths, or to bring them there shortly thereafter.
it does keep down funeral costs…
I’ve said it all along, this is why old people smell funny. Because they live with decomposing corpses.
Who else is happy they weren’t drinking something when they read this?!
Kozmik
November 9, 2008, 7:23am
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And don’t forget that old people are the living dead.