Raleigh woman's garden became her husband's grave [Buried in garden she "worked obsessively"]

AP ^ | 06/27/11 | Renee Elder

[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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[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Question: "Where is Grand Ma?

Answer: "Out planting in the garden."

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Planting livestock doesn’t work either - ping.

[MHGinTN]

All that talking when working her flowers may have been her expressing her appreciation to her departed for him conitnuing to provide for her and her home. Was she nuts? I’m not so sure ...

[sportutegrl]

Sounds like the Funny Farm.

[albie]

Columbos...”Requiem for a Falling Star” with Anne Baxter. She buried her husband in the back yard too!

[rhoda_penmark]

I live a couple of miles away. The local story reported that they were not legally married and that his SS checks continued to be mailed and cashed for the 14 years he was missing. Perfect explanation there; deaths are concealed all the time to keep benefit checks coming.

[elcid1970]

“I believe you would be well advised to locate the new delphinium bed elsewhere, Hobbes!”

[alexander_busek]

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.

"A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner.

Regards,

[wideawake]

See also the song “A Rose For Emily” by The Zombies.

[fightin kentuckian]

and he was buried facing North by Northwest.

[Revolting cat!]

And an invalid photographer with a gorgeous girlfriend turned her in after watching her all summer out of his rear window?

I don't know how you did it (spies in Burbank?), but you stole my screenplay's main idea. (Currently in pre-production, Hugh Grant and Naomi Watts starring.)

[RainMan]

Reminds me of poor old Rolf Neslund in Seattle, the Captain of the Antonio Chavez that hit the West Seattle bridge in 1978, and his untimely end in 1980 ...

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8137

[Mila]

"And an invalid photographer with a gorgeous girlfriend turned her in after watching her all summer out of his rear window?"

Love that movie

[Vinnie]

Drool....

Grace Kelly has got to be one of the all-time beauties.
Was that her first film?

[Mila]

"Was that her first film?"

As near as I can tell her first film role was in the thriller Fourteen Hours with Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart and Barbara Bel Geddes. Her second film was High Noon with Gary Cooper.

[Slings and Arrows]

Neighbors noted that she served a wonderful elderberry wine.

[Ciexyz]

A shank of lamb might be involved here.

[Slings and Arrows]

Your reference is tantalizing familiar....

[Rastus]

If you’re really asking, it’s from the Alfred Hitchcock Presents where Barbara Bel Geddes killed her husband with a leg of lamb and fed it to the cops.

[Slings and Arrows]

I really was. Thank you.