That sounds eerily familiar to an episode of CSI: Vegas.
Talk about yer small world. I met Alicia A. Caldwell in an airport one night when we were all snowed in. Good solid reporter. Fetching, too.
What???
As for the O.P., it’s the squatting thing that makes me believe it all. He moved in when the building was in a fuzzy legal position, and it stood untouched for two decades. The fact that his children didn’t look is to me just so very sad.
There’s estranged, then there’s " is Daddy alive?? ".
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The Premature Burial by Edgar Allen Poe came to mind. Surely a nightmarish way to perish.
( full original text, but this is in public domain and so I feel comfortable with this link. Mods, if it’s still uncool to fully link text like that, remove the link? But, it’s from 1850 and I am guessing it’s safe )
There’s a documentary about people who die alone (from the coroners’ point of view, I thnk) making the rounds on cable. It’s A Certain Kind of Death, and I watched about one minute before changing the channel. The first shot was a guy who’d died on his toilet, with the coroner estimating death by the infestation of maggots on his body. Yuck.
Some more choice selections from this article:
Set up automatic payments from your bank account. If your SS is automatically deposited you could go a very long time.
Heh. I do have automatic payments for the mortgage, and the taxes are included in the payment.
How very sad.