Mummified body left in home for two-plus years

Woman who didnt want to be buried found in front of TV set at Ohio home

CINCINNATI - The mummified body of a woman who didn’t want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.

Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn’t want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O’Dell Owens said Monday.

Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street. Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope’s home Monday afternoon.

It could take weeks to determine Pope’s cause of death because little organ tissue was available for testing, Owens said.

An air conditioner had been left running upstairs, and that allowed the body to slowly mummify, he said. The machine apparently stopped working about a month ago, and the body began to smell.

“Standing outside, one could smell death,” Owens said.

Police went to the house last Wednesday after receiving a call from a relative who hadn’t seen Pope in years. They found a staircase behind a door blocked by a basket and climbed to the second floor, where they found the body.

It was not clear if any crimes were committed, Owens said.

Authorities did not identify the caregiver, a women in her 40s who apparently lived in the home with Pope, Pope’s daughter and her 3-year-old granddaughter.

“The caregiver is not someone you’d think was from another planet or really seems off the wall — (she’s) a pretty normal kind of person,” he said. “But I think out of loyalty, friendship and love of her friend, (she) decided to keep the body at home.”

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is there even close to enough lysol on the planet to get rid of that smell?

That's fucking disgusting. Not to mention really wierd.

So they just closed off the entrance, left the A/C on and chose to forget about grandma?

I just threw up in my mouth

yuck.

LOL. WTF.

now I have something to masturbate to before I go to bed

This thread is delicious!

Did I read that correctly? The family members just like.. ignored that part of the house and continued to live downstairs?

Kinda reminds me of National Lampoons Vacation where Clark just throws grandma up on the luggage rack.

I wonder what they told the granddaughter. Grandma's napping so be quiet.

I thought I smelled something driving down that street.....