Recluse in her apartment, she lived for a year with a corpse in the living room

This Tuesday, August 23, police in Petaluma, northern California, made a surprising discovery. The police had been alerted by neighbors, worried about not seeing any more signs of life of a woman in a home, in front of which packages were piling up. After entering the house, they fell on the corpse of the woman, in the living room. As Newsweek reports, his body was at a advanced stage of decomposition.

But the police also discovered another woman in a bedroom. She said she was the daughter of the deceasedand that the latter was died of natural causes in April 2021 according to her. This woman was then brought in for a medical evaluation. The police, however, indicated that she was fully aware of living with her mother’s corpse. An investigation has been opened and an autopsy must be carried out to determine the exact causes of the victim’s death.

A similar case in France

A few days ago, similar events occurred in France. Indeed, on August 24, the body of a man in his 40s was found at his mother’s home 76 years old, in Cannes, in the Alpes-Maritimes. As stated BFMTV Nice Côte d’Azur, the septuagenarian did not immediately open the door to the firefighters, alerted by neighbors, embarrassed by the pestilential smell. She then gave them indicated that her son was sleeping. When they entered, the emergency services discovered the body of the forty-year-old, resting on a cot, in the middle of the living room, in a advanced state of decomposition. According to the details of the Grasse prosecutor’s office to BFMTV, it would have been dead for at least a fortnight. For her part, the mother of the victim, visibly in denial since the death of her sonwas taken care of by the emergency services and then transported to the psychiatric department of the Simone Veil hospital.