I understand not caring about someone, which is sad af, but to the point where you are like "yeah I'm just going to do nothing about the body and live with these smells", like wtf. I do not understand that.
I had a neighbor pass away in an apartment building several doors down from me. I came home from working out of town for a week in the middle of the night. The stench was so bad that I decided to go visit my parents for the week. When I was packing to leave the next morning, I saw a man in a hazmat suit in the hallway. He said that the man had been dead for about a week. How someone could live in a home with a decaying body for any amount of time is beyond me. The smell in the apartment building was enough to make me gag.
Scent habituation- living around it constantly and long enough will produce the inability to smell that particular scent strongly or altogether. But yes, how they could deal with it long enough for habitualization to occur is the very question. Yikes. I am terribly sorry for this old man, I could not even imagine this happening to one of my grandparents.
What bothers me the most is that all these family members and friends are hearing excuse after excuse and not talking to this man, and never asked for a wellness check? Never called police or drove there themselves? Seven years for anything to be noticed or done? He truly was alone and that is the saddest thing I can imagine.
What’s disturbing is that there was no “wellness check” by the rest of the family. I sent one to my aunts house before. Because she didn’t answer her phone for a week. I couldn’t imagine not speaking to her for years.
They said they are estrange, yet was still in communication with the family to be asking questions about his whereabouts. Also he passed away naturally, and no one every in 6 years checked on him and just let him rot. They did not care about him.
@@isabellesapphirethomas1681 yup. That's what I heard them say too. That's why I said I couldn't imagine not speaking to someone that long. I guess I'm the type of person who checks on people 🤷♀️
A coworker of mine has a son of whom bought his dream house in Arizona and rented it out in the meantime while he finished out his Air Force contract so they could move into themselves after the tenants moved out. The tenants had an elderly mother they were taking care of of which died in one of the bedrooms in the house and they let her dead body lay in the bed for 3 weeks before they did anything. The tenant claimed she didn't know what to do, so she did nothing. Needless to say it instantly was no longer their dream house and soon after sold it.
@@a.y.t.a.s.494 Yeh maybe if he was in the back room with the door shut and a little frebeeze maybe it might have slipped their minds that hes dead, Then again it would be suspicious if pops never gets up for breakfast.
Everyone remember, if they're willing to live with a deceased person, for that long, what kind of individuals are they and are they more like death and less like life? Meaning, pure evil!
In some cultures it’s normal to remain with the deceased even as they decomposed. Of course they do lots of cleaning, wrapping, and coating them in herbs. But this situation was definitely one of evil.
From what I heard it was his plan, he didn't want his daughter to struggle so he instructed her "Daughter, when I die, don't tell anyone and continue to collect my social security checks, it is my dying wish."
My neighbor just about 2 weeks ago was arrested because her mom has been dead on the couch for months. It happened in Massachusetts. I think she was cashing her mom's disability because she was a heroin junkie.
Probably so. My buddies dad took care of his daughter her whole life but when he died last year she was 45 never worked once always lived with him at home she tried to convince her brother to leave his body in the basement so she could keep cashing his pension checks cause she had nothing! Of course he called the EMT immediately but somehow she got two more checks and cashed before the death certificate came thru like 6500$ now those places what their money back but she's gone and emptied his account 15k nobody's seen her since then we found out she hadn't been taken him to his doctors appointment for months and he had some kinda cancer that nobody in the family knew about she was his Caretaker so legally no doctors would tell the family any of his business he'd probably still be alive if she was keeping up with his appointments
@@frankm8533 Damn dude.. that's sickening and sad. She should be charged with murder if that's the case, just used him for money and left him to die? I believe she's got a deep pit reserved for herself in hell when the time comes.. Geeze..
In MA?? I missed that one... where was that? A while back, there was a woman in Brookline living with her deceased sister for a couple of years. It was not a money thing, more of a dementia or mental health crisis.
I just don't know how people could live in a space that reeked of the smell of death. I also know that the smell of death sticks to your clothes. I was a paramedic for 26 years. I've been around the smell of death. That smell makes you want to hurl. Also, with death comes fly activity. I'm nauseated, and I feel so sad for that man.
We had a man down the road from us die in his home. This is going back over 20 years ago. Neighbors began to smell the stench, us included. But we didn’t suspect it was an actual dead body of a human being. But then a few days later we found out it was. He was an alcoholic that you’d rarely see outside of his home, but I remember how horrifying and sad it was finding out that the smell was not a dead animal somewhere, but a dead man. He also lived on the other end of our street too, so it was really alarming how the smell trickled down the block. 😢
Aww man. Sad. My parents had a rental property back when I was a baby. There was a liquor store behind the house acroos an ally. They were their for about 3mths when they started smelling soemthing dead. They thought it was under the house. Nothing. Then it got stronger over the weeks. They thought it was the a/c. They finally called someone. Cops peeked around the ally. Smelled really strong. They found the owner of the liquor store. He was retiring and had gone into the store to grab last minute belongings. He fell over a bottle and died. In a hallway area. Windows were tested. The a/c in hid building was in fan.. it was blowing the smell right into my parents a/c unit that was located right across his vents. They still say they can smell that smell. He was 64. No living family. Only a friend that he told goodbye to and that he would be back to visit in 1 mth or so. He was there 3 weeks. That's way no one wondered where he was. 😢
"OOh that smell....Can't ya smell that smell? ....the smell that's around you..." ....Lynard Sknyrd..... Sorry....I had to. Similar event happened in Cleveburg......It ended up this BLACK guy was killing black women......and the sausage factory down the street WAS blamed for the smell......And yes.....he was caught eventually.
When people say “Aren’t you worried about getting old and dying alone because you don’t have kids?!” Nope. We all die alone. Sometimes family will do you dirtier. 🤷♀️
@Jack McHue yeah, they will quickly prosecute you for anything in this city except for meth, it seems like the city council members, or the police officers themselves are part of the meth problem in the city because nothing ever gets done about it.
Same thing happened in my hometown. Women died, she lived with her daughter and son in law. She passed away in her recliner, they keep covering body with blankets. They were collecting here social security for a year.
My dad got paid on the first, he passed on the 4th. They tried to get the money back. It’s ridiculous what they do. The bank came the day after his funeral to appraise the house.
@@maryjane4432 Discover tried to get $ as we were walking out for my Dads funeral. Told um better hurry he might have a dollar in his pocket and hung up on them.
That other family members were estranged is no surprise. Isolating the elder is one of the first things they do once they very first present a show of affection and socializing long enough to put people at ease. Then the isolation begins and it's hard to break because often the elder is so flattered by the attention the abuser gives them, that they defend the abuser. They even can become hostile to the concerned family because they are questioning the judgement by questioning the abuser, fear the abuser aka flatterer may leave them and then they'll end up in a "home", or alone, or they think the family is jealous or the ones being abusive because the abuser plays a victim card. Once well isolated they change their tune and become openly abusive and/ or neglectful. AN APS WORKER ONCE TOLD ME THAT WHEN ON A WELFARE CHECK THEY MUST SEE THE POTENTIAL VICTIM THEMSELVES TO CONFIRM THEY ARE ALIVE BECAUSE THIS IS NOT SO UNCOMMON. IT'S JUST NOT IN THE NEWS THAT MUCH.
Yes! Had a neighbor's house slowly taken over by nephew then a gang dealing drugs! I expect this is happening all over the country. They moved in addicts in the basement with buckets for waste. A two year nightmare.
It appears from toys in the yard that there are kids living there. It’s sick and appalling. I found this report lacking as they never said how it was discovered unless the nieces asked for a wellness check. I hope these sick people get prosecuted and have to repay all the Social Security money.
This is just an update on the case. It was originally reported on back in October of last year, when he was found. His son-in-law, who lived in the home, was the one to report it. As devastating as this is, I really hope it was just a case of his daughter not being able to come to terms with the fact he died. That’s what it seems like to me, as there was no foul play suspected, and it took the son-in-law so long to report it. He may have been slowly trying to help her, but it just became too much by last year.
@@FeatherX Fact is, we don’t know. It could also be they collected checks because that’s the only way she could keep her father in the house. Social security being involved doesn’t inherently mean they did it with malicious intent. They have to get involved if the individual was collecting benefits. Be it they died at home or at the hospital. As far as it stands now, yes, they collected checks. But, assuming there was no foul play, that’s the only crime they committed, as it actually isn’t against the law to keep the deceased in the home in Kansas. The question that’ll be answered by social security is why they did it.
@@SneakySalaXander Or maybe he went along with the scam until he decided to leave/divorce her, 🤷♀️ although I would think he would be liable for half the SS collected. Sad but interesting story.
They kept making excuses that he was asleep for 6 years. And never went into the bedroom to check up on him?Those relatives should have known something was wrong after being told by the 3rd time, negligence from all that family
I think there are some mental issues here. No sane person would allow a dead body to remain there ....Well, Norman Bates did that with his Mother up at the Bates Motel, right? (Reference: Psycho,1960 film)
And the niece never visited him is what this tells me as someone that worked in healthcare. She readily accepted those lies they gave her on the phone because it was easy, so now she's amazed? Give me a break.
@Lucy Left the Building I've seen seniors basically abandoned once they're in a nursing home and not once visited by relatives that live in the same town/city. But having a dead body inside the home smells like something you can't begin to imagine. It made me wonder if there are children in the home.
My uncle is a retired general, he has no kids, he was like a second father to me. His long time girlfriend I had no clue until these last few years NEVER liked me, anyways 5 years ago he married her, which I totally got, supported and thought was amazing as they had been together for a long time, (prior 30 years they always had a odd relationship as they’re both career driven and independent so they broke up got back together, they both have their ways so others always found dating them difficult so I thought they matched 🤷🏼♀️) but when he called he said they privately got married and “it was the right thing to do” it was the oddest way I’ve been told about a marriage as I was also told now that he’s married I was taken off his will (which I NEVER EXPECTED TO BE ON NOR KNEW I EVER WAS AS WHILE I LOVE HIM DEARLY IM JUST HIS NIECE) well my uncle started to loose his memory (he doesn’t have dementia I don’t think) these last few years, also ALL our family has passed my parents died by the time I was 35 (I do have a husband, daughter, grandkids) but he was the only older family member I had left so I enjoyed our closeness, calls, he stopped visiting me, and now calling. I was calling him but I got the sense I was annoying them especially her as he’d make jokes then say she said hi and I could tell it was a joke because she hated me, they travel a lot always have but now retired they do so for fun he was close to where I live and never called to see me which my entire life that’s unheard of, he use to drive me nuts how much he use to visit or if in the next state he’d expect me or him to fly out. So after that I stopped calling and he hasn’t called me, I honestly don’t think he cares and I don’t want to bother him or push myself on him. I’m saying this as sometimes we care tremendously we were just pushed away and accepted it.
@Lucy Left the Building my uncle stopped talking to me because his wife doesn’t like me and for no reason as I’ve never caused them problems nor been in their way sometimes it’s more difficult and as hard as it is you accept it.
RIP to this man, RIH to the ones that disrespected his body and memory like this for money. I understand that people can live difficult lives but this is truly unconscionable
My cat left a dead mouse under a desk in my office and the stench was ghastly. At first I didn't know what it was, but it was so intolerable I went on a search and found the desiccated little body. It was the kind of thing you never forget, so when I smelled it again in a storage closet at work, I immediately knew what it was. It was so bad I couldn't go in the closet and asked a janitor to search it out. I can't imagine living in a house with a rotting body laying upstairs. Good grief!
Have you watched the shows Hoarders or Buried Alive? To some people sadly having a dead body in their house is not a problem. There are some crazy people in this world. To them it makes sense.
Many families nowadays want the "easy" way out. They don't push for answers because it may require they have to do something to get them! I would NEVER let my parent or grandparent go years without seeing or speaking to them myself. Your silly lives are NOT that important! Trust that
I'm disgusted at some branches of my family when my loved aunts and uncles die, they cremated them, and put them on a shelf in somebody's home. No memorial, no family gathering to say goodbye. No one's demanding full funerals, but it's like poof they disappear and no one remembers the moments we all shared. That's how old folk vanish!
We don't know what the family dynamic was. Were the out-of-town relatives ever very close to him? Also, did he have severe dementia before he died? I mean you don't really expect to have a phone conversation with someone who has advanced dementia.
Guy across the street died when I was a kid. His sister came to check on him, he was elderly with mental issues. He was found dead in the home after a few days only but it smelled pretty bad from outside when they had the doors open. My family helped clean out the house ...
Sounds like this guy had no life insurance and the family needed the money from his Social Security. Even if they had no money to bury him, seems like there would be a better option than simply leaving him in the house.
Naw fuck all that if they able body and young that's just cold I rather bury pops or my grandparents and figure it out then having them be their rotting with disrecpt
Please explain how other family members are shocked when they don't even go over and check on their family members and they don't even know their family. Six years and you don't realize Uncle Tommy's not at the Christmas celebration????
It sounded as if most of those family members lived out of state. It's not unusual in this day and age. And why would they suspect that their relatives were lying to them? Easy to point fingers at others when you don't know the full story. Not all of us are suspicious of everybody all the time.
What gets me are the relatives saying there was one excuse after another. They were willing to accept the excuses as long as there was no bother for them. Now they're squawking.
The non-complicit family members can say all they want to now, but how can ANY of them say ANYTHING now if NOT ONE of them did ONE SINGLE (especially after all of the suspicious "excuses") welfare check on this "now important relative" in SIX FRICKEN YEARS!! All of this is shameful for this ENTIRE family. I feel only for this poor old gentleman and can only hope that he was at least cared for until his end, and also that this was just more about collecting his welfare/Social Security checks after his passing! EVERY SINGLE family member in this entire incident should be ashamed for themselves!! My he R.I.P....
EXACTLY!! I don't care what excuses they had!! It's been since 2016!! SEVEN YEARS!! At a *minimum* they should have requested a welfare check on him. I would have pushed my way past cousin and walked right into the house!!
right! extremely strange behavior to just be ok with excuse after excuse about why they can't even talk to their relative for 6 years. this man was let down by everyone
He was living with his daughter. A daughter has a closer relationship legally than nieces and nephews. The responsibility is on her not distant out of town relatives.
@@Rebecca-hc5ju You could have and should have been arrested. You cant enter your cousins home without permission any more than they can barge into yours.
The fact that they had to interview the “family” members over the phone shows just how much people cared about him. Maybe the guy was a bad guy, who knows, but then what does that make you if you’re willing to live with a dead body for 6 years?
These sisters talking on the phone should be just as accountable as the people living in the house. They never thought to get in their car or on a plane to see what was going on for themselves?,
Rip I just don't understand what's going on with this world so many horrible things just keeps happening how can they have a body that's going to smell people are sick really sick
There...that's the fallout from our brave new social media world. We have lost the personal connection to our neighbours and community. Even 30 years ago if someone disappeared from a neighbourhood people would go check on them to see what was up.
So you go up to the door and knock, and nobody answers, or somebody answers and says "he's out with relatives" or whatever. What are you supposed to do? If you smell something but you don't know what a dead body smells like, do you call the police? What if they're just crappy lazy and stinky homeowners? It's obvious the house used to be a very nice one and yes, it fell into disrepair, but people were still living there. It's not as if there was a single person living alone (like me) - elderly (like me), and the neighbors would have then suspected something had happened if they didn't see me (nearly outside daily) and especially my front yard showed signs of neglect (I am one of those retirees who spends all her time landscaping). Do we really need to be that noisy of neighbors? This isn't the neighbors' fault the poor man died and the people he was living with at the time are vultures.
Just a couple of days ago, my husband's uncle died in his home. His friend who checks on him daily was on a 3 day trip and could not get him on the phone. As soon as she got home she went over there and found him. She called my husband and he rushed over and he said it smelled quite bad. His 2 family flat is hoarded completely. My husband said the cops asked him if anything was misplaced or missing. He just looked at them and said, "No one would know." Apparently he made no provisions for a funeral, a will, his bank accounts, nothing. And he owns 2 buildings, one with tenants. My husband and his siblings have to go thru boxes and boxes and boxes of paperwork to see if they can find a will or anything. It is going to take months. It is going to take dumpsters. It is going to take a lawyer. What a mess! They have been asking him for a long time to get his affairs in order, and get rid of some stuff. My husband always helped him. He was a very kind, and smart man, so I am very surprised at this. I guess he just thought he had more time. He was 74.
@@andraclark9993 Yes. He had a friend calling daily and a niece calling weekly. It just happened when the friend was gone for 3 days. She still called him but he did not answer. I wish she had called my husband or someone in the family to say she could not get hold of him.
@@andraclark9993 Also his family has been asking him for years to clean out his flat, with their help, and he would not do it. When he asked for help fixing something, my husband would go over and help him and encourage him to throw out some stuff. He would not do it. His niece has been asking him to get his affairs in order for a while, too.
You don't think 💬🤔 they googled how to keep the smell down 👎👎👎.....?...if not the neighbors would've been called in ova the smell -you don't think 🤔 so???
This is fraud and sick. I hope those involved go to prison for a long time. Moreover, there needs to be a homicide investigation to ensure the victim was not killed with neglect. Clearly, morals or laws meant nothing to these criminals.
Wait, they didn’t put the body in a freezer? That’s crazy. Well, everything is expensive so I can see holding on to his income but to leave him in his bed is crazy. I guess they have their insanity defense.
How nice of the daughters to not visit their father in 6 years but are worried to death to know what happened they worried about that money the old men left
@G P is right. It takes time to pull together solid evidence and how each person is involved/attached to the crime. Very sad that the family members he has lived with treated him like this after he passed. And how was his treatment while he was alive?
The family is acting like they cared. You didn't hear from him or see him for 6-7 years. Didn't talk to him for any holidays or birthdays for 6 years. Clearly NEVER stopped by the "family" home for anything. The family already acted like he was dead. If I didn't hear from a family member or seen them for a few months I'm looking for them, especially after multiple years. Then the nieces say they thought something was wrong but had no problem keeping their mouth shut for 6 years. Now they act shocked and devastated he's dead. His family didn't care at all for him. I have no empathy for the family besides this man. Any of the family speaking to media is clearly looking for attention plain and simple.
I think Social Security should have everyone come in person as soon as someone turns 80 years old or 90 years old just to confirm that they are real and they are not being taken advantage of
"Grandpa's dead, mom." "Well, I'm not sure what you want me to do about it. Just keep the bedroom door closed. Stuff a towel under the door so we don't smell it. C'mon, let's go. We have a fun activity planned, business as usual." I couldn't fathom how people could live and behave like this, and then I got married....
If it isn't illegal then why did they take his body? Or how long can someone keep a dead body? I'm from a different state so this law is very confusing.
Be funny if we find out the old man said “ I worked hard all those years paying social security. When I die, just close the door and keep cashing the checks”. I have no idea the facts of this case, but I’ve known a few people with that attitude.
I remember years ago I had a dead mouse in my house. The smell was god-awful and driving me nuts. I literally tore the house apart just to find it and get rid of it. How do you live with a dead body ??
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This is disturbing on so many levels. Obviously they never cared about him. Its all about his Social Security checks. May he R.I.P.
Terrible
SS Check..most likely..
So sad
I think they needed the dough more than the dead dude 👻🍻🤑
I understand not caring about someone, which is sad af, but to the point where you are like "yeah I'm just going to do nothing about the body and live with these smells", like wtf. I do not understand that.
@@ronisnotahuman exactly I mean they had to smell that through the AC they act like everything's okay and proceed a normal life
When someone dies in your family, you really learn the true nature of others. I experienced this with my mother's death.
me too.
me too
same with my father's death.
holy shit.
That’s the beauty of being poor af, you know people aren’t around you for the money 😂
I had a neighbor pass away in an apartment building several doors down from me. I came home from working out of town for a week in the middle of the night. The stench was so bad that I decided to go visit my parents for the week. When I was packing to leave the next morning, I saw a man in a hazmat suit in the hallway. He said that the man had been dead for about a week. How someone could live in a home with a decaying body for any amount of time is beyond me. The smell in the apartment building was enough to make me gag.
Not all people rot like that.
@Carleen it's called samadhi.
False. Everyone will rot get a grip Christ is Lord your fake religion is Satan in disguise
@Carleen depending on the conditions, temp, ect.
@@SharkFishSF samadhi lol yeah ok
How do you ignore the smell of a decaying body for one week let alone six years? That's insane!
First couple months are bad, then it decreases.
Drugs. Lots of drugs.
Scent habituation- living around it constantly and long enough will produce the inability to smell that particular scent strongly or altogether. But yes, how they could deal with it long enough for habitualization to occur is the very question. Yikes. I am terribly sorry for this old man, I could not even imagine this happening to one of my grandparents.
Can you imagine how there clothes smelled? probably walked around smelling like DEATH 🤢🤮
Maybe they put him in a freezer
Greed makes people do some crazy things but this is BEYOND - this is just sick and cruel. RIP to this gentleman.
There was a woman who moved her dead Mom in a blue barrel for 4 or 5 years. She went to prison and her unit was put up for auction.
And the worst part - it was his own daughter!! That's SICK & GREEDY. Smfh.
Right!? How. I h we’re the SS checks? Geez!
Maybe he wasnt a gentleman. But anyway that doesnt give any right to do this
@Derrick Cannon it's pretty cruel to the family that cared about him. The ones calling to try and speak to him.
What bothers me the most is that all these family members and friends are hearing excuse after excuse and not talking to this man, and never asked for a wellness check? Never called police or drove there themselves? Seven years for anything to be noticed or done? He truly was alone and that is the saddest thing I can imagine.
Very sad. The family needs to be held accountable. No one should end up like that. 😫
Can people like that be held accountable? I'd ask for a mental health evaluation.
Right Greed!!
@@angelblue314They can be jailed for spending his social security money if they did that. Most likely scenario.
Moving Forward?Your moving backword.!
@@vrjanice2 Yeah It seems so. If they weren’t getting his SS then they’re sick in a different way I’d think.
What’s disturbing is that there was no “wellness check” by the rest of the family. I sent one to my aunts house before. Because she didn’t answer her phone for a week. I couldn’t imagine not speaking to her for years.
They said they are estrange, yet was still in communication with the family to be asking questions about his whereabouts. Also he passed away naturally, and no one every in 6 years checked on him and just let him rot. They did not care about him.
@@isabellesapphirethomas1681 yup. That's what I heard them say too. That's why I said I couldn't imagine not speaking to someone that long. I guess I'm the type of person who checks on people 🤷♀️
@@YourRoyalMajesty. sometimes that shows you care, other times it’s interference and totally unwelcome. All families are different.
@@jessiec1194 that is true. 💖🕯️
What in the world! The smell? How could anyone live like that! My deepest condolences to the family and friends of the VICTIM! RIP
And then carry that smell everywhere they go.
A coworker of mine has a son of whom bought his dream house in Arizona and rented it out in the meantime while he finished out his Air Force contract so they could move into themselves after the tenants moved out. The tenants had an elderly mother they were taking care of of which died in one of the bedrooms in the house and they let her dead body lay in the bed for 3 weeks before they did anything. The tenant claimed she didn't know what to do, so she did nothing. Needless to say it instantly was no longer their dream house and soon after sold it.
Seriously, you couldn't even seal off that odor. It would seep through the sheetrock.
Fabreeze 😂
@@a.y.t.a.s.494 Yeh maybe if he was in the back room with the door shut and a little frebeeze maybe it might have slipped their minds that hes dead, Then again it would be suspicious if pops never gets up for breakfast.
Everyone remember, if they're willing to live with a deceased person, for that long, what kind of individuals are they and are they more like death and less like life? Meaning, pure evil!
Evil or mentally ill.
Greed
@@shanepallette Tho i agree with you Greed alone doesn’t just do this, It’s a combination. These people have to be PURE EVIL.
In some cultures it’s normal to remain with the deceased even as they decomposed. Of course they do lots of cleaning, wrapping, and coating them in herbs. But this situation was definitely one of evil.
From what I heard it was his plan, he didn't want his daughter to struggle so he instructed her "Daughter, when I die, don't tell anyone and continue to collect my social security checks, it is my dying wish."
My neighbor just about 2 weeks ago was arrested because her mom has been dead on the couch for months. It happened in Massachusetts. I think she was cashing her mom's disability because she was a heroin junkie.
Probably so. My buddies dad took care of his daughter her whole life but when he died last year she was 45 never worked once always lived with him at home she tried to convince her brother to leave his body in the basement so she could keep cashing his pension checks cause she had nothing! Of course he called the EMT immediately but somehow she got two more checks and cashed before the death certificate came thru like 6500$ now those places what their money back but she's gone and emptied his account 15k nobody's seen her since then we found out she hadn't been taken him to his doctors appointment for months and he had some kinda cancer that nobody in the family knew about she was his Caretaker so legally no doctors would tell the family any of his business he'd probably still be alive if she was keeping up with his appointments
Glad that junkie b**** was arrested.
@@frankm8533 Damn dude.. that's sickening and sad. She should be charged with murder if that's the case, just used him for money and left him to die?
I believe she's got a deep pit reserved for herself in hell when the time comes.. Geeze..
Omg 🙆♀️🤢the smell, the maggots & fly's..one could clean & disinfect but the energy would still remain.
In MA?? I missed that one... where was that?
A while back, there was a woman in Brookline living with her deceased sister for a couple of years. It was not a money thing, more of a dementia or mental health crisis.
THIS IS SO DISGUSTING AND DEEPLY SAD. FAMILY MEMBERS NEED TO BE CHARGED
I just don't know how people could live in a space that reeked of the smell of death. I also know that the smell of death sticks to your clothes. I was a paramedic for 26 years. I've been around the smell of death. That smell makes you want to hurl. Also, with death comes fly activity. I'm nauseated, and I feel so sad for that man.
"Fly activity". I shouldn't laugh, but that had me 😬.
Drugs deaden senses and morality.
We had a man down the road from us die in his home. This is going back over 20 years ago. Neighbors began to smell the stench, us included. But we didn’t suspect it was an actual dead body of a human being. But then a few days later we found out it was. He was an alcoholic that you’d rarely see outside of his home, but I remember how horrifying and sad it was finding out that the smell was not a dead animal somewhere, but a dead man. He also lived on the other end of our street too, so it was really alarming how the smell trickled down the block. 😢
Aww man. Sad. My parents had a rental property back when I was a baby. There was a liquor store behind the house acroos an ally. They were their for about 3mths when they started smelling soemthing dead. They thought it was under the house. Nothing. Then it got stronger over the weeks. They thought it was the a/c. They finally called someone. Cops peeked around the ally. Smelled really strong. They found the owner of the liquor store. He was retiring and had gone into the store to grab last minute belongings. He fell over a bottle and died. In a hallway area. Windows were tested. The a/c in hid building was in fan.. it was blowing the smell right into my parents a/c unit that was located right across his vents. They still say they can smell that smell. He was 64. No living family. Only a friend that he told goodbye to and that he would be back to visit in 1 mth or so. He was there 3 weeks. That's way no one wondered where he was. 😢
"OOh that smell....Can't ya smell that smell? ....the smell that's around you..." ....Lynard Sknyrd.....
Sorry....I had to. Similar event happened in Cleveburg......It ended up this BLACK guy was killing black women......and the sausage factory down the street WAS blamed for the smell......And yes.....he was caught eventually.
@@marikiemarie7622Sad 🥺
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 Oh wow! Thank god he was caught. 😢
@@marikiemarie7622 😢🥺😔i hope he is happy where his at
I'm now curious why the police went there. What or who tipped them off?
The cops said "something smells here" .
Bad Reporting. They failed to say how he was discovered.
@Jack McHue That would be reporting. If that was the case, they should have said that. Expectations of "news" now is so low.
Probably the out of state family.
@@jamesnewberry1191 I think out of town family members requested a wellness check.
When people say “Aren’t you worried about getting old and dying alone because you don’t have kids?!”
Nope. We all die alone. Sometimes family will do you dirtier. 🤷♀️
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All my “Family” were the ones that have betrayed me and have done me so dirty.
So many evil people in this world
@@CrusaderforChrist-Channel sorry to hear that 😞
@@snarkysharky7913
I’m not sure why I wrote that. It had nothing to do with the topic 🤦🏽♀️
Thank you, Have a great day! ☺️
Yeah can’t rely on those “miracles”. We all die alone we were wit my dad all of us when he passes. How can they do that?
What took so long for the family to call for a wellness check by police. They said they were given excuses after excuses??????????😡
They got a check but it wasn't for wellness. 🤨
They must had one hell of excuse
Police won't force their way in doing a welfare check.
Idk but i said the same thing...unreal.
@Jack McHue yeah, they will quickly prosecute you for anything in this city except for meth, it seems like the city council members, or the police officers themselves are part of the meth problem in the city because nothing ever gets done about it.
……6 years & no one in his family didn’t check on him ?? that’s sick.
I visit a relative in a care home, trust me when I say we treat animals better.
They checked, but no one answered the door. They also called and spoke with te daughter wo gave excuses.
I haven’t heard from my son in several years. He couldn’t care less about my well-being.
@@shabbykat273 I’m sorry to hear that. And I hope all is well for you!
They were all collecting on that social security check of the old mans
They kept getting that check so they let the old guy rot
well he didn't get any older when he passed.
And then there's saving on groceries once he quit eating, smoking, needing toilet paper, etc. lol.
@@timewa851 Saved on a funeral or cremation expense by going for a "green" decomposition.
Same thing happened in my hometown. Women died, she lived with her daughter and son in law. She passed away in her recliner, they keep covering body with blankets. They were collecting here social security for a year.
Holy sh*t
SS will cut those checks off the moment someone stops breathing, down to the minute.
My dad got paid on the first, he passed on the 4th. They tried to get the money back. It’s ridiculous what they do. The bank came the day after his funeral to appraise the house.
They try to collect if you don't live the full month of death. My Dad died at 60 he never got a dime. Served in WW2 and Korea.
@@maryjane4432 Discover tried to get $ as we were walking out for my Dads funeral. Told um better hurry he might have a dollar in his pocket and hung up on them.
Which is what the law is, get over it.
My dad just died and I was shocked how many people asked me at his memorial "What will you do with his house?" He..just..died.. Like vultures.
That other family members were estranged is no surprise. Isolating the elder is one of the first things they do once they very first present a show of affection and socializing long enough to put people at ease. Then the isolation begins and it's hard to break because often the elder is so flattered by the attention the abuser gives them, that they defend the abuser. They even can become hostile to the concerned family because they are questioning the judgement by questioning the abuser, fear the abuser aka flatterer may leave them and then they'll end up in a "home", or alone, or they think the family is jealous or the ones being abusive because the abuser plays a victim card.
Once well isolated they change their tune and become openly abusive and/ or neglectful.
AN APS WORKER ONCE TOLD ME THAT WHEN ON A WELFARE CHECK THEY MUST SEE THE POTENTIAL VICTIM THEMSELVES TO CONFIRM THEY ARE ALIVE BECAUSE THIS IS NOT SO UNCOMMON. IT'S JUST NOT IN THE NEWS THAT MUCH.
Yes! Had a neighbor's house slowly taken over by nephew then a gang dealing drugs! I expect this is happening all over the country. They moved in addicts in the basement with buckets for waste. A two year nightmare.
What's APS?
@@pearlperlitavenegas2023 adult protective services
The things people do out of GREED!( smh).😔
When the IRS and SS gives our money to millions of illegals and green card holders when they never put a dime in our system. Why not.
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Yea and it’s always family doing it to family. Especially in America, dog eat dog
It appears from toys in the yard that there are kids living there. It’s sick and appalling. I found this report lacking as they never said how it was discovered unless the nieces asked for a wellness check. I hope these sick people get prosecuted and have to repay all the Social Security money.
This is just an update on the case. It was originally reported on back in October of last year, when he was found. His son-in-law, who lived in the home, was the one to report it. As devastating as this is, I really hope it was just a case of his daughter not being able to come to terms with the fact he died. That’s what it seems like to me, as there was no foul play suspected, and it took the son-in-law so long to report it. He may have been slowly trying to help her, but it just became too much by last year.
@@SneakySalaXander or just collecting a check
@@FeatherX Fact is, we don’t know. It could also be they collected checks because that’s the only way she could keep her father in the house. Social security being involved doesn’t inherently mean they did it with malicious intent. They have to get involved if the individual was collecting benefits. Be it they died at home or at the hospital. As far as it stands now, yes, they collected checks. But, assuming there was no foul play, that’s the only crime they committed, as it actually isn’t against the law to keep the deceased in the home in Kansas. The question that’ll be answered by social security is why they did it.
Repay with a hefty interest charge.
@@SneakySalaXander Or maybe he went along with the scam until he decided to leave/divorce her, 🤷♀️ although I would think he would be liable for half the SS collected. Sad but interesting story.
They kept making excuses that he was asleep for 6 years. And never went into the bedroom to check up on him?Those relatives should have known something was wrong after being told by the 3rd time, negligence from all that family
After 6 years, his body would have been mummified.
I think there are some mental issues here. No sane person would allow a dead body to remain there ....Well, Norman Bates did that with his Mother up at the Bates Motel, right? (Reference: Psycho,1960 film)
They knew. The smell from a decomposing body inside that house would have been overwhelming.
How could they? It wasn't their house.
They lived out of state and showed up unannounced once and no one answered the door.
They wanted his house and his money...but not him. 😣
And the niece never visited him is what this tells me as someone that worked in healthcare. She readily accepted those lies they gave her on the phone because it was easy, so now she's amazed? Give me a break.
@Lucy Left the Building I've seen seniors basically abandoned once they're in a nursing home and not once visited by relatives that live in the same town/city. But having a dead body inside the home smells like something you can't begin to imagine. It made me wonder if there are children in the home.
Niece was out of state perhaps?
My uncle is a retired general, he has no kids, he was like a second father to me. His long time girlfriend I had no clue until these last few years NEVER liked me, anyways 5 years ago he married her, which I totally got, supported and thought was amazing as they had been together for a long time, (prior 30 years they always had a odd relationship as they’re both career driven and independent so they broke up got back together, they both have their ways so others always found dating them difficult so I thought they matched 🤷🏼♀️) but when he called he said they privately got married and “it was the right thing to do” it was the oddest way I’ve been told about a marriage as I was also told now that he’s married I was taken off his will (which I NEVER EXPECTED TO BE ON NOR KNEW I EVER WAS AS WHILE I LOVE HIM DEARLY IM JUST HIS NIECE) well my uncle started to loose his memory (he doesn’t have dementia I don’t think) these last few years, also ALL our family has passed my parents died by the time I was 35 (I do have a husband, daughter, grandkids) but he was the only older family member I had left so I enjoyed our closeness, calls, he stopped visiting me, and now calling. I was calling him but I got the sense I was annoying them especially her as he’d make jokes then say she said hi and I could tell it was a joke because she hated me, they travel a lot always have but now retired they do so for fun he was close to where I live and never called to see me which my entire life that’s unheard of, he use to drive me nuts how much he use to visit or if in the next state he’d expect me or him to fly out. So after that I stopped calling and he hasn’t called me, I honestly don’t think he cares and I don’t want to bother him or push myself on him. I’m saying this as sometimes we care tremendously we were just pushed away and accepted it.
@Lucy Left the Building my uncle stopped talking to me because his wife doesn’t like me and for no reason as I’ve never caused them problems nor been in their way sometimes it’s more difficult and as hard as it is you accept it.
@@eldajackson1 not hard to call the police for a wellness check police check and make sure they are alive and well
RIP to this man, RIH to the ones that disrespected his body and memory like this for money.
I understand that people can live difficult lives but this is truly unconscionable
Sickening
My cat left a dead mouse under a desk in my office and the stench was ghastly. At first I didn't know what it was, but it was so intolerable I went on a search and found the desiccated little body. It was the kind of thing you never forget, so when I smelled it again in a storage closet at work, I immediately knew what it was. It was so bad I couldn't go in the closet and asked a janitor to search it out. I can't imagine living in a house with a rotting body laying upstairs. Good grief!
Deeply disturbing, horrific and unconscionable. Makes me nauseous to even try and comprehend the level of vileness that went on in that house.
How did no one noticed the stench??? This is something you would never forget.
Have you watched the shows Hoarders or Buried Alive? To some people sadly having a dead body in their house is not a problem. There are some crazy people in this world. To them it makes sense.
maybe they froze him?
@@lisamariebarker6816 it said he was still in his bed 😬
Many families nowadays want the "easy" way out. They don't push for answers because it may require they have to do something to get them! I would NEVER let my parent or grandparent go years without seeing or speaking to them myself.
Your silly lives are NOT that important! Trust that
I'm disgusted at some branches of my family when my loved aunts and uncles die, they cremated them, and put them on a shelf in somebody's home. No memorial, no family gathering to say goodbye. No one's demanding full funerals, but it's like poof they disappear and no one remembers the moments we all shared. That's how old folk vanish!
We don't know what the family dynamic was. Were the out-of-town relatives ever very close to him? Also, did he have severe dementia before he died? I mean you don't really expect to have a phone conversation with someone who has advanced dementia.
May he finally get the peace he deserves.🙏😇🇺🇸
Speechless!
Guy across the street died when I was a kid. His sister came to check on him, he was elderly with mental issues. He was found dead in the home after a few days only but it smelled pretty bad from outside when they had the doors open. My family helped clean out the house ...
The LOVE of money....
SMH
What people would do for money,this level of greed is just disgusting and mind blowing.
Sounds like this guy had no life insurance and the family needed the money from his Social Security. Even if they had no money to bury him, seems like there would be a better option than simply leaving him in the house.
6 damn years, no you simply don’t do that, this is greed
I was about to say the same thing. But they didn't need it they were just GREEDY!
Please don't sympathize or make excuses for monsters. That's a 35k truck sitting in the driveway.
there is provision by soc sec to bury a person on it. But the checks would have stopped.
Naw fuck all that if they able body and young that's just cold I rather bury pops or my grandparents and figure it out then having them be their rotting with disrecpt
This a whole new level of HOME BODY
Please explain how other family members are shocked when they don't even go over and check on their family members and they don't even know their family. Six years and you don't realize Uncle Tommy's not at the Christmas celebration????
It sounded as if most of those family members lived out of state. It's not unusual in this day and age. And why would they suspect that their relatives were lying to them? Easy to point fingers at others when you don't know the full story. Not all of us are suspicious of everybody all the time.
She didn't have legal access to the house. I have 3 wacko sisters so I know crazy.
I really hope this poor old man will be remembered for something other than this and the family members that did this are remembered only for this.
The person taking all of that SS money has to pay it all back and will probably go to jail.
Probably one or the other
I'll bet the home equity has been spent long ago along with the checks.
What gets me are the relatives saying there was one excuse after another. They were willing to accept the excuses as long as there was no bother for them. Now they're squawking.
Going to see more of this as the economy goes to hell.
So, for seven years his siblings accepted the excuses of his children and never physically checked on him? Wow!
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Have Mercy Jesus...How did they get passed the smell ...smh .
Stench of death would be in their clothing you'd smell it a mile away or they didn't have close contact with others maybe.
So many people failed this poor man 🥹
The non-complicit family members can say all they want to now, but how can ANY of them say ANYTHING now if NOT ONE of them did ONE SINGLE (especially after all of the suspicious "excuses") welfare check on this "now important relative" in SIX FRICKEN YEARS!! All of this is shameful for this ENTIRE family. I feel only for this poor old gentleman and can only hope that he was at least cared for until his end, and also that this was just more about collecting his welfare/Social Security checks after his passing! EVERY SINGLE family member in this entire incident should be ashamed for themselves!! My he R.I.P....
EXACTLY!! I don't care what excuses they had!! It's been since 2016!! SEVEN YEARS!! At a *minimum* they should have requested a welfare check on him. I would have pushed my way past cousin and walked right into the house!!
right! extremely strange behavior to just be ok with excuse after excuse about why they can't even talk to their relative for 6 years. this man was let down by everyone
He was living with his daughter. A daughter has a closer relationship legally than nieces and nephews. The responsibility is on her not distant out of town relatives.
@@Rebecca-hc5ju You could have and should have been arrested. You cant enter your cousins home without permission any more than they can barge into yours.
@@grantcanty7294 AMEN!
The fact that they had to interview the “family” members over the phone shows just how much people cared about him. Maybe the guy was a bad guy, who knows, but then what does that make you if you’re willing to live with a dead body for 6 years?
Wondering why the Social Security Admin. is in charge. Was the family somehow cashing his Social Security checks?
Probably. My guess is that is why they didn't tell anyone he was dead.
direct deposit
Yup.
Yes
Direct deposit and debit card from his account.
These sisters talking on the phone should be just as accountable as the people living in the house. They never thought to get in their car or on a plane to see what was going on for themselves?,
They didn’t care that much.
how can you treat your own father like this ??
How did the father treat them?
Rip I just don't understand what's going on with this world so many horrible things just keeps happening how can they have a body that's going to smell people are sick really sick
There...that's the fallout from our brave new social media world. We have lost the personal connection to our neighbours and community. Even 30 years ago if someone disappeared from a neighbourhood people would go check on them to see what was up.
This has been happening since the 80s Get over yourself
Good post. Never mind G P! He probably has a dead body in his parents home but he too busy playing dungeons&dragons.
This is a family issue, I guess nobody cared about him. Nobody even checked on him, can't blame neighbors the world isn't safe to be around strangers.
So you go up to the door and knock, and nobody answers, or somebody answers and says "he's out with relatives" or whatever. What are you supposed to do? If you smell something but you don't know what a dead body smells like, do you call the police? What if they're just crappy lazy and stinky homeowners? It's obvious the house used to be a very nice one and yes, it fell into disrepair, but people were still living there. It's not as if there was a single person living alone (like me) - elderly (like me), and the neighbors would have then suspected something had happened if they didn't see me (nearly outside daily) and especially my front yard showed signs of neglect (I am one of those retirees who spends all her time landscaping). Do we really need to be that noisy of neighbors? This isn't the neighbors' fault the poor man died and the people he was living with at the time are vultures.
@@backagain5216 LOL
Just a couple of days ago, my husband's uncle died in his home. His friend who checks on him daily was on a 3 day trip and could not get him on the phone. As soon as she got home she went over there and found him. She called my husband and he rushed over and he said it smelled quite bad. His 2 family flat is hoarded completely. My husband said the cops asked him if anything was misplaced or missing. He just looked at them and said, "No one would know." Apparently he made no provisions for a funeral, a will, his bank accounts, nothing. And he owns 2 buildings, one with tenants. My husband and his siblings have to go thru boxes and boxes and boxes of paperwork to see if they can find a will or anything. It is going to take months. It is going to take dumpsters. It is going to take a lawyer. What a mess! They have been asking him for a long time to get his affairs in order, and get rid of some stuff. My husband always helped him. He was a very kind, and smart man, so I am very surprised at this. I guess he just thought he had more time. He was 74.
People need to keep an eye on their elderly relatives, at least give them a call once a week. 😢
@@andraclark9993 Yes. He had a friend calling daily and a niece calling weekly. It just happened when the friend was gone for 3 days. She still called him but he did not answer. I wish she had called my husband or someone in the family to say she could not get hold of him.
@@andraclark9993 Also his family has been asking him for years to clean out his flat, with their help, and he would not do it. When he asked for help fixing something, my husband would go over and help him and encourage him to throw out some stuff. He would not do it. His niece has been asking him to get his affairs in order for a while, too.
how was he discovered? How about telling the whole story???
Not one person bothered to check up on this poor man 😢
This is heartbreaking.
no heartbreaking....he probably died naturally...but cashing his checks is pure evil....
Family members shocked? They didn’t hear from him or try to contact him for 6 years, they didn’t care that much!
Seriously
"I mean sure Frank smells, but he pays the bills so he can stay"
That’s awful
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@@winstonmarajh991 Stop that. I know it was funny as well. Just try not to laugh😁
@@TG-fq6vy can't help it !
They for sure need to serve time in jail to think about how much of terrible human being they are
OMG The smell would be horrifying how can somebody live in a house with a dead body for 6 years. There goes my breakfast lunch and dinner
They ate out.
Condolences to the family.
Why there responsible
Arrest everyone in that house!
Can you imagine the stench of a rotting body, laying there for 6 years? Just going into a smell like that would make me throw up.
After a period of time there would be no smell at all. Maybe just some musty smell if you got close by now.
You don't think 💬🤔 they googled how to keep the smell down 👎👎👎.....?...if not the neighbors would've been called in ova the smell -you don't think 🤔 so???
The smell, the waste from the decomposition, the maggots, the flies, and the psychological impact 😱.
@@nessparadis6948 For weeks to a month or two. Then it all dries up and the smells decrease quickly, the maggots and flies disappear.
Being a Mike myself, this hurts our community.
This is fraud and sick. I hope those involved go to prison for a long time. Moreover, there needs to be a homicide investigation to ensure the victim was not killed with neglect. Clearly, morals or laws meant nothing to these criminals.
Wait, they didn’t put the body in a freezer? That’s crazy. Well, everything is expensive so I can see holding on to his income but to leave him in his bed is crazy. I guess they have their insanity defense.
Some one is collecting those SS/pension checks.
Did you figure that out on your own?
Yeah follow the money and let's go to jail.
Why no charges yet?
I know whyte!
How nice of the daughters to not visit their father in 6 years but are worried to death to know what happened they worried about that money the old men left
It’s hard to say goodbye
Rest In Peace beloved one
Oh my Dear Lord! 😮
This is something straight out of an Episode of Shameless. What a world.
Why is no one arrested?
Cause there are no criminal charges (yet)
@G P is right. It takes time to pull together solid evidence and how each person is involved/attached to the crime. Very sad that the family members he has lived with treated him like this after he passed. And how was his treatment while he was alive?
That's so disgusting and disrespectful!
How is that possible?!!!
Who cares what his family members want, they didn’t even realize he was dead for 6 years.
He said I don't smell
Were they collecting his monthly check?!?!?!
If they never reported his death, yes. Evil and greedy.
This is what happens when you disrespect the deceased things just start falling apart.
Falling 🌠 apart like what?....
Some people don't know how to maintain or care for anything. All they know is how to have a good time and keep on with their oh-so-important lives.
Or the people were just disgusting overall.
Human lives is a form of business? Easy slave money.
Yes!
The family is acting like they cared. You didn't hear from him or see him for 6-7 years. Didn't talk to him for any holidays or birthdays for 6 years. Clearly NEVER stopped by the "family" home for anything. The family already acted like he was dead. If I didn't hear from a family member or seen them for a few months I'm looking for them, especially after multiple years. Then the nieces say they thought something was wrong but had no problem keeping their mouth shut for 6 years. Now they act shocked and devastated he's dead. His family didn't care at all for him. I have no empathy for the family besides this man. Any of the family speaking to media is clearly looking for attention plain and simple.
Exactly shame on them as well!!!
How awful
Kids: Can we go play with grandpa?
Family: NO..He's sleeping.
I never knew that 'Weekend At Bernie's' would become a 'How To' video. 🤔
I think Social Security should have everyone come in person as soon as someone turns 80 years old or 90 years old just to confirm that they are real and they are not being taken advantage of
I feel so sorry for that dog. They smell hundreds of times better than us. What a nightmare.
Right that’s why he was barking
Have you ever had a dog? They roll in dead things, they love it, lol.
@@yesterdayseyes that's to cover their scent lol
@@yesterdayseyes I have two dogs but living with a rotting corpse for years in the house is a toxic nightmare for an animal
My estranged older sister died 4 years ago... her body wasn't found in her apartment until about 3 weeks later.
"Grandpa's dead, mom." "Well, I'm not sure what you want me to do about it. Just keep the bedroom door closed. Stuff a towel under the door so we don't smell it. C'mon, let's go. We have a fun activity planned, business as usual." I couldn't fathom how people could live and behave like this, and then I got married....
Seems like a helluva time for the family to be concerned. Poor dude been dead since 2016 and people are just now "concerned"?
Lord help us to be righteous and be saved!!
God is dead
Im in your walls
Amen..🙏🏼
To the ones Mocking God - you will be Eternally sorry.. God IS ALIVE - Seek Him Now While He may be Found... #JesusBless
God is Santa Claus for grownups. Most of the problems of the world stem from this idiotic belief. You're an embarrassment to humanity.
If it isn't illegal then why did they take his body? Or how long can someone keep a dead body? I'm from a different state so this law is very confusing.
How can anyone be so cruel? I don’t get people anymore 😢
Why are people in this world so crazy and if it’s happening here it’s happening many other parts we just don’t know it… smh
Be funny if we find out the old man said “ I worked hard all those years paying social security. When I die, just close the door and keep cashing the checks”.
I have no idea the facts of this case, but I’ve known a few people with that attitude.
I remember years ago I had a dead mouse in my house. The smell was god-awful and driving me nuts. I literally tore the house apart just to find it and get rid of it. How do you live with a dead body ??
SS $$$ masks the smell.
@@mikejohn0088 Lol.
That’s horrible. Somebody got themselves a free house and free social security payments. Humanity is just horrible at this point.
Guarantee the SS office will be coming for them if any checks were cashed since he died.
And they should. Those selfish a-holes committed fraud.