Woman Who Died In '03 Left In Front Of TV

[The Straight Story]

Woman Who Died In '03 Left In Front Of TV

POSTED: 7:39 pm EST January 9, 2006

CINCINNATI -- A dead woman dressed in white was positioned in a chair in front of a television set for 2 1/2 years because she told her caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned to return, the coroner said.

"Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens said Monday in describing Johannas Pope's wishes. "Don't bury me. I'm coming back."

Pope, 61, died Aug. 29, 2003. Her caretaker and friend, whose name has not been released, left the woman upstairs in the home with the television and air conditioning on while the body slowly decayed and mummified, authorities said.

Some family members continued to live downstairs in the house since her death.

http://www.local6.com/news/5960868/detail.html

[theshadow]

1. Watch for it on Law & Order. eom

[NanceGreggs]

2. "Ripped from today's headlines ..."

[Theres-a]

3. Was the TV on?

:hide:

[DS1]

5. She's been watching House

:D

[txindy]

4. Was her caregiver Norman Bates?

:wtf: :freak:

[wisteria]

6. This is a joke right? It is surreal to think she was upstairs and

family was downstairs and she was expecting to come back and watch the junk on TV. Unbelievable.

[bluestateguy]

7. Yikes

Pope, 61, died Aug. 29, 2003. Her caretaker and friend, whose name has not been released, left the woman upstairs in the home with the television and air conditioning on while the body slowly decayed and mummified, authorities said.


That's going to be one hell of an electric bill.

[sakabatou]

8. In today's weird news...

[mike_c]

9. So? What's so strange about that?

I mean it's not like they ate her or anything sick like that....

:hide:

[The Straight Story]

11. I would have left a walkie talkie near here "Can ya hear me now?"

Just to see if I got an answer...

[XemaSab]

20. At first I read this and was like, WTF mike?

But then I remembered that you have thousands of corpses hanging around...

:hide:

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. What about the stench?

Air conditioners don't chill a room to 32 degrees, so that corpse had to be rotting. :puke:

[The Straight Story]

12. Oh I dunno, bush stinks pretty bad and he is still sitting reading goat..

heh

[SPKrazy]

13. Rotting like crazy!

2.5 years, disgusting, really!

[KittyWampus]

14. they control humidity. It's the dry air that'd do it.... I think

[ruggerson]

15. And, amazingly enough, she STILL was posting on Free Republic!

n/t

[CatWoman]

16. HJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:

[Mabus]

17. Wonder how many she's "voted" since then

If she's posting on Free Republic :shrug:

[BlueJazz]

18. CBS news said the daughter was quoted as saying:

My Mummy loves TV!!

[Gemini Cat]

19. *Gack*

There are no words...!