Woman Who Died in '03 Left in Front of TV [Ohio}

AP/TBO ^ | January 9, 2006

[ncountylee]

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A dead woman dressed in white was positioned in a chair in front of a television set for 2 1/2 years because she told her caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned to return, the coroner said.

"Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens said Monday in describing Johannas Pope's wishes. "Don't bury me. I'm coming back."

Pope, 61, died Aug. 29, 2003. Her caretaker and friend, whose name has not been released, left the woman upstairs in the home with the television and air conditioning on while the body slowly decayed and mummified, authorities said.

Some family members continued to live downstairs in the house since her death.

Police went to the house last Wednesday after a relative who hadn't seen Pope in 2 1/2 years called them. They found a staircase behind a door blocked by a basket and climbed to the second floor where they found the body.

"Standing outside, one could smell death," Owens said

[Maximus of Texas]

Showing your age there, T.

[marmar]

Imagine that......

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[CheneyChick]

What show was she watching?

[pissant]

Imagine the smell....

[pissant]

Teeny is now OPH** status.




**old plucked hen

[spunkets]

"I guess the Kerry campaign claims she would have voted for John Kerry. Another recount!"

How do anyone know she didn't get lost and came back as J Kerry?

[marmar]

Nope.....my gag reflex is in tiptop shape. I can't imagine having a dead body in the house...and the A/C bill.

[pissant]

Then again, it would be like a No Pest Strip and attract all the flies to a single location in the house.

[marmar]

I have a hard time with smells...I can see things..but smells are hard on me......

[teenyelliott]

Gladly.

[teenyelliott]

I like my age. And it doesn't hurt that I don't look my age.

[teenyelliott]

"Standing outside, one could smell death,"

That reads like the first line of a very bad novel.

[tet68]

"Standing outside, one could smell death,"

That reads like the first line of a very bad novel.


"Standing outside, one could smell death,"

I glanced up and read the name over the office door.

Nancy Pelosi.

[pissant]

Decaying flesh is not on the top of my list either.

[teenyelliott]

That would explain the way she looks. And why she is so vacant.

[tet68]

And it doesn't hurt that I don't look my age.

You don't look a day over 24.

[pissant]

I agree, you don't look a day over 40. It's amazing. ;o)

[WestCoastGal]

"What show was she watching?"

Ghost Whisperer or Medium!

[teenyelliott]

I am not a woman ashamed of my age. I will be 36 in a couple of weeks.