Posted on 03/07/2023 11:05:17 AM PST by nickcarraway
An Illinois woman found her husband’s dead body inside their home nearly eight months after he disappeared. Jennifer Maedge reported her husband, Richard Maedge, missing on the afternoon of April 27.
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“I decided to put the Christmas tree up, and I was looking for a tote of Christmas ornaments, and that’s when I discovered him,” Jennifer told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in December. “He had committed suicide.”
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Jennifer, her neighbors, and even cops reported a foul odor coming from the home for months but believed it was sewage.
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Something fishy going on here
I agree.
Also, would a thorough search of the home occur in a missing persons case?
If a corpse is allowed to fully decompose, it’s very difficult to be specific about the cause of death. Seems a little convenient if there was ‘foul play’
It’s a hoarding home. That is a key piece of information. Dead relatives and pets have been found before in hoarding homes.
Missing person?
Foul odor?
The cops didn’t have a dog who might know the difference between sewage and death?
I just don’t see why someone would commit suicide in a closet?
Suicide is a secret act and closets usually have sturdy hardware and belts to accomplish the act.
“and the odor, Jennifer said, was never overwhelming “
Translation: “my house full of junk and rotting food stinks all the time, so the incremental increase in stink from the decomposing corpse was hardly noticeable.”
She was such a bad hoarder she wouldn’t throw her dead husband away.
Was he the hoarder or was it the wife?
I tell you, I get no respect....I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.
Rodney Dangerfield
Okay, you are talking about some David Carradine/ichael Hutchence action. But do they actually close the door before they do it?
Also, you are talking about a clothes closet. Usually the Christmas ornaments are in storage closet that doesn't have rods going across.
IDK, my Christmas crap is in the guest bedroom closet. My house only has small storage cupboards in the bathrooms. Depends on the house really.
David Carridine was an accidental asphyxiation not a suicide. Intent matters.
Something is rotten in Denmark. lol
You never know when you might need to use something again, until you finally realize it won't be useful. Or you need the space for something else.
If he had been the hoarder, presumably the wife would have cleaned up after a while. Chances are that she was the hoarder and the condition of the home drove him to despair and suicide. My two cents’ worth, anyway.
“Was he the hoarder or was it the wife?”
You can’t have two people living together in those conditions without both of them contributing to the issue.
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