http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/25/bookca ... index.html

Woman's body found behind bookcase

NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida (AP) -- A woman's body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her.

A spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Mariesa Weber's death was not suspicious. Family members said they believe she fell over as she tried to adjust the plug of a television behind the bookshelf.

Weber, 38, came home October 28 and greeted her mother, then wasn't seen again. Her family thought she had been kidnapped and contacted authorities. Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, although they did notice a strange smell.

On Nov. 9, Weber's sister went into her bedroom and looked behind a bookcase, where she saw the woman's foot. Using a flashlight, the family saw Weber was wedged upside-down behind the unit.

"I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her," her mother, Connie Weber, told the St. Petersburg Times. "And she's right in the bedroom."

Both Weber and her sister previously had adjusted the television plug by standing on a bureau next to the shelf and leaning over the top. Her family believes Weber, who was 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, may have fallen headfirst into the space.

"She's a little thing," her mother said. "And the bookcase is 6 feet tall and solid. And she couldn't get out."

The sheriff's office said Weber appeared to have died because she was unable to breathe in the position she was in.

At least she had pants on. I bet a few people die every year from falling during an attempt to do some weird sex act.

That's fucked up, right there.

How did nobody smell her? The only way her sister noticed that there was a dead person in the room with her is because she saw a foot?

Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, although they did notice a strange smell.

that's so fucking gross. it's like a modern day poe story

except that there's no moral to the story

policeman #1: "wtf is that smell? it's like something died in here."
policeman #2: "probably a dead mouse behind a bookcase or something. hey! let's go get a donut."

I skimmed right past that part.

That smell had to have been pretty strange and growing stranger by the day.

she probably hated books.

I plan on sending this article to all my short friends with a warning to be careful around deadly bookcases.

Well, she did fall behind the bookshelf while fucking with the television. I guess that's as ironic as you can get.

this will make for an awkward funeral.