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Raleigh woman's garden became her husband's grave [Buried in garden she "worked obsessively"]
AP ^
| 06/27/11
| Renee Elder
Posted on 06/27/2011 10:37:57 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Ruth Huber Bostic carefully tended to her flower garden every day, even though the rest of her home and property were in shambles.
Neighbors said she appeared to talk to herself while she cared for the hosta plants and violets. These seemed to be moments of tranquility for a troubled elderly woman whose husband had apparently departed long ago.
Then, more than a year after she died at age 78, police discovered Bostic had not been entirely alone during her daily garden visits: Underneath the ivy and bricks, detectives found the remains of her husband, David Ellis Bostic.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: garden; napl; raleigh; ruthhuberbostic
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
And an invalid photographer with a gorgeous girlfriend turned her in after watching her all summer out of his rear window?
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:40:33 AM PDT
by
Cyman
To: Cyman
Sounds pretty Psycho to me. ;)
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:42:18 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
He was recycled..................
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:43:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Underneath the ivy and bricks, detectives found the remains of her husband, David Ellis Bostic.Literally, pushing up daisies...
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:44:45 AM PDT
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
To: Red Badger
Obama said he’s a corpse man.
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:48:33 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: WOBBLY BOB
He last voted in 96. I wonder who he voted for?.....................
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:50:19 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Londo Molari
No, he was holding up hostas................
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:51:22 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Cyman
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:52:13 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Sounds pretty Psycho to meMore like ...
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posted on
06/27/2011 10:58:21 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
But that sort of thing is for The Birds! ;)
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:00:16 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
To: Red Badger
Wobbly Bob probably—Dole was his name.
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:00:46 AM PDT
by
izzatzo
(Palin2012, she's one of us.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
And “they” think Hollywood is just as good today as it was back in the day. Oy ...
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:12:29 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Sounds like she didn’t want to report the death so she could keep cashing the SS checks.
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:13:02 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Sounds like she was collecting his Social Security check though, it says that investigators became suspicious several months after she died when the bank noticed no withdrawals were being made on his account. So she may have been crazy but she was sane enough to cheat the system...
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:14:32 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; pandoraou812
"I guess these are questions that will never be answered."..."Why didn't she call on family if she needed help?"
You answered that. She was nuts.
"Why did she bury him in the yard?"
You answered that. She was nuts.
"Did she do it alone?"
I think we can go with "Probably so" for that one. She was nuts. lol
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:16:14 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Wranglers not Levis. Levi Strauss is anti-2nd Amendment.)
To: TigersEye
"FEEEEEEEEEEEEED ME, SEYMOUR!!!"
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:19:08 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Heck, we all know that Hubby’s body in the back garden is routine in that neck of the woods. Can’t remember if it was Faulkner or Steinbeck who wrote a short story where the widow slept beside her husband’s body for decades.
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:23:24 AM PDT
by
Grut
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