Posted on 01/08/2009 8:31:36 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A spinster who obsessively hoarded clothes died in her home after a mountain of suitcases fell on her, burying her alive.
Joan Cunnane, 77, owned 300 scarves as well as thousands of trinkets and valuables.
They took up so much space in her bungalow that she had only a 2ft-wide path to get around them, and her car and garage were packed with other goods.
After she was reported missing earlier this week, it took police searching her home two days to sift through her possessions.
Miss Cunnane was eventually found buried under a 3ft pile of cases in a back bedroom where she had apparently gone in search of a favourite item.
The eccentric pensioner, who had no known family, is thought to have died of dehydration several days earlier on Boxing Day.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Poor lady. So sad. No family. If she is anything like me she probably got there and forgot what the heck she was looking for anyway, so all was most likely for not! or is that for naught!?
I swear, this will be my mom and some-day soon.
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You’d think they’d have a big garage sale, but it’s been almost exactly two weeks since she died.... I don’t think anyone’s going to want most of that stuff any more.
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