# Blind hoarder mom may not have known she was living with son's corpse - for 20 years
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 27, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029 "2016-09-27T12:33:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/1 "2016-09-27T12:33:22Z")
The headline says it all:
> **[Blind hoarder mom may not have known she was living with son’s corpse – for...](https://torontosun.com/2016/09/26/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse--for-20-years)**
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> A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman left her house so messy that she didn't realize her son was dead in the home for 20 years.
Curiously, the room had an overriding stench of rotten food, not rotting flesh - presumably the mice and rats took care of that over the past two decades, leaving an intact fully dressed skeleton.
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/2 "2016-09-27T13:40:54Z")
Wish there was more to the story. Like the respective ages.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/3 "2016-09-27T14:44:11Z")
From a story on the [WPIX website](http://pix11.com/2016/09/16/sons-skeletal-remains-found-in-womans-home-in-brooklyn-police-sources/), “The deceased man, whose name has not yet been released, was a former taxi driver who would have turned 51 years old this week.”
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/4 "2016-09-27T15:40:48Z")
What did she do, wander around for a few days saying, “Son? Son?. . . Oh, I guess he must have moved out.” This is a sad story.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/5 "2016-09-27T15:43:21Z")
Another [source](http://gothamist.com/2016/09/25/blind_brooklyn_woman_may_not_have_k.php) says that she had two sons, one who would have been 51 now and one who would have been 49. This source says that the older one died in 2003 and the younger has not been seen in twenty years. It sounds like the police have a little sorting out to do.
There must be some serious alienation in that poor woman’s family, if one of her sons just disappears and no one thinks to question where he might be (including her). I guess it’s possible that she might have some cognitive issues along with the OCD.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/6 "2016-09-27T17:05:28Z")
Bet she’s feels silly now complaining he never visits
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/7 "2016-09-27T18:10:26Z")
Pics or it didn’t happen.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/8 "2016-09-27T18:34:21Z")
In **20 years** , she never stumbled over or felt something on that mattress?
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/9 "2016-09-27T19:06:03Z")
Maybe the last conversation she had with him was, “Mom, stay out of my room!”
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/10 "2016-09-27T19:10:07Z")
This is odd.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-hoarder-mom-may-not-have-known-she-was-living-with-sons-corpse-for-20-years/767029/11 "2016-09-27T19:28:44Z")
I wonder how they’re gonna work this into an \*L&O: SVU \*episode?