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I don't know if this is an old story that's been reported again, or if there's a novel or something but I KNOW that I've read this before. Every single bit of this story is familiar to me and I can even tell you more.
I remember that the dead woman (the killer) had been letting out one of the rooms in her house to the old lady in the cupboard and that she killed her and claimed her pension for her, telling the government that she (the dead lady) was bedridden and she (not-dead-for-now lady) was doing her a favour by collecting her money for her.
When she died her son (not her daughter) found the dead lady, who was wrapped in a doona in the wardrobe in the hall, and the old lady had been preserved somehow (possibly due to the dryness or something in the cupboard). Until then his mum had been telling him that the old lady had moved away somewhere and that she'd been keeping some of her things in the cupboard for her and he wasn't allowed to look in on them because they weren't his.
So guys...
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/10/closet.body.ap/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
CHARLES TOWN, West Virginia (AP) -- The daughter of a woman made a gruesome discovery while going through her mother's bedroom closet after the woman died -- the decomposing body of another woman wrapped in plastic, blankets and a sleeping bag.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department is trying to identify the corpse found April 3, a day after Beatrice Magaha suffered a stroke outside her home and hit her head. She died on the way to the hospital.
The next day, the daughter and her husband called police after being overwhelmed by the smell coming from the closet. Sgt. R.S. Sell said Wednesday he found the body of an elderly woman wrapped in layers on the closet floor.
The body appeared to have been there for a while. While an autopsy turned up no evidence of foul play, the death is being treated as suspicious.
DNA samples were taken from the body in an attempt to identify the remains. It could be several weeks before lab results are available, Sell said.
Sell said another woman had lived with Magaha but family members had not seen her for a year or two. The couple told Sell that whenever they visited Magaha, she would not allow them inside her home, about 15 miles south of Martinsburg
I don't know if this is an old story that's been reported again, or if there's a novel or something but I KNOW that I've read this before. Every single bit of this story is familiar to me and I can even tell you more.
I remember that the dead woman (the killer) had been letting out one of the rooms in her house to the old lady in the cupboard and that she killed her and claimed her pension for her, telling the government that she (the dead lady) was bedridden and she (not-dead-for-now lady) was doing her a favour by collecting her money for her.
When she died her son (not her daughter) found the dead lady, who was wrapped in a doona in the wardrobe in the hall, and the old lady had been preserved somehow (possibly due to the dryness or something in the cupboard). Until then his mum had been telling him that the old lady had moved away somewhere and that she'd been keeping some of her things in the cupboard for her and he wasn't allowed to look in on them because they weren't his.
So guys...