Random People Who Were Found Living with Dead Bodies (14 items)

• (#8) Father Hides Wife's Self-Induced Passing From Children

  One Sunday night in 2011, Parthasarathy argued with his wife, beat her soundly, and left the room. When he returned some time later, he found his wife, Saraswathi, hanging from the ceiling fan with a noose made of her sari. Rather than call for help, he cut her down himself, and she passed soon after. For the next four days, he kept his wife's body locked in the bedroom, slept in the hallway, and told his children (8 and 5) that their mom was sick. Neighbors eventually called police to investigate the foul smell of her decomposition.
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  (#5) Older Woman Lives With Husband And Sister, Both Corpses

  When Jean Stevens's husband, James, passed in 2000, she still had her twin sister June for company. But when June passed in 2009, Jean, 91, was very lonely. She somehow had the graves of both her husband and her sister exhumed and brought their bodies home so she could see and talk to them.

  Stevens sat James down on a couch in her detached garage in rural Pennsylvania, and she propped June up in a spare room in the main house. She spoke to the two corpses, dressed them up in "accessories," and spritzed them with perfumes that they liked.

  When questioned, she said, "I think when you put them in the (ground), that's goodbye, goodbye. In this way, I could touch [them] and look at [them] and talk to [them]."
• (#3) Man Turns Wife's Corpse Into Real Doll

  After Le Van’s wife passed and was buried in 2003, he began sleeping on top of her grave every night. When the weather got nasty, he dug a tunnel down to the casket so he wouldn’t get rained on. In November 2004 - more than a year later - he finally dug up the body and took it on home. To keep his wife’s corpse nice and fresh, Van molded her skin with plaster and clay and dressed her up. In 2009, he reported that she slept on the bed with him.
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  (#6) Man Murders Girlfriend, Hides Body On Bedroom Floor

  Police found 39-year-old Melinda Raya in July 2011 in bed, two months after Erik Grumpelt, 35, murdered her. He had been living with her the whole time and confessed to killing her.
• (#11) Grieving Widow Sleeps Next To Husband For A Year

  In November 2013, a grieving Belgian widow was discovered to have been living with her husband's body for nearly a year. Too traumatized to report his passing, the woman, 69, slept beside her husband, Marcel's, corpse, despite its smell and advanced stages of decomposition. The couple was discovered when a landlord noted they hadn't paid their rent since 2012. Marcel, 79, was suspected to have passed of an asthma attack.
• (#14) 90 Year-Old Lives With Three Dead Siblings

  When Elaine Bernstorff passed in the late 1970s, her surviving siblings Anita, Frank, and Margaret kept her body around the Evanston, IL, home they shared. Notoriously private, and known for being packrats, the Bernstorff's never let others enter their cluttered house. Everyone assumed it was because the Bernstorffs were embarrassed of their messy home. They had no idea the family had been concealing their sister's body for more than three decades.

  Frank passed in 2003 at age 83. The remaining sisters covered him with blankets and put him in another room, away from Elaine. Then Anita passed in May 2008 at age 98, leaving the last sister all alone.

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