Woman who died in '03 left in front of TV

Modesto Bee ^ | 01/09/06 | AP

[CAWats]

CINCINNATI (AP) - 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.

[BladeLWS]

Ack

[Graybeard58]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1554979/posts

[Daralundy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1554979/posts

Posted before in general/chat

[farlander]

Wow. Just... wow. You just can't make this up. I'm sure she voted Democrat this last election. O, and I bet someone went to collect her Social Security checks... hmmm... "I'll be back, but in the mean time, you can cash my checks for me".

[Rocky]

OK, now that is weird.

Real estate agent selling the house next door: "The neighbors are very quiet and they keep to themselves."

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[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.]

If this works for them, who am I to protest?

[CAWats]

I did a search and didn't find it. Sorry.

[opticks]

Even the stench of the Bengals' defense wasn't enough to wake her from death.

[Frank_2001]

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

Let me guess- Gomez, Morticia, Fester and Lurch?;)))

[null and void]

Her caretaker and friend, whose name has not been released

Norman Bates...

[RichInOC]

So...has she come back yet?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Real estate agent selling the house next door: "The neighbors are very quiet and they keep to themselves."]

Well what you expect them to say? The reason they are so quiet is because they are dead?

[CAWats]

I hope not.

[Daralundy]

Searching on title is sometimes funky if the title isn't exact.

[Graybeard58]

Did you search by title?

[Graybeard58]

The title is exact.

[BookaT]

Pics?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Good old Norman. I wouldn't want to piss him off.

[Captainpaintball]

So...has she come back yet?

No, because these intrusive government ninnies screwed it all up!