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CINCINNATI - The mummified body of a woman who didn’t want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.
Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn’t want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O’Dell Owens said Monday.
Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street. Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope’s home Monday afternoon.
t could take weeks to determine Pope’s cause of death because little organ tissue was available for testing, Owens said.
An air conditioner had been left running upstairs, and that allowed the body to slowly mummify, he said. The machine apparently stopped working about a month ago, and the body began to smell.
“Standing outside, one could smell death,” Owens said.
Police went to the house last Wednesday after receiving a call from a relative who hadn’t seen Pope in years. They found a staircase behind a door blocked by a basket and climbed to the second floor, where they found the body.
It was not clear if any crimes were committed, Owens said.
Authorities did not identify the caregiver, a women in her 40s who apparently lived in the home with Pope, Pope’s daughter and her 3-year-old granddaughter.
“The caregiver is not someone you’d think was from another planet or really seems off the wall — (she’s) a pretty normal kind of person,” he said. “But I think out of loyalty, friendship and love of her friend, (she) decided to keep the body at home.”
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed
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| Demoted |
| She was mummified? Someone must have known then to waste all the Quilted Northern to gift wrap her! :mad: |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Demoted
She was mummified? Someone must have known then to waste all the Quilted Northern to gift wrap her! :mad: |
| quote: | | An air conditioner had been left running upstairs, and that allowed the body to slowly mummify, he said. The machine apparently stopped working about a month ago, and the body began to smell. |
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| Demoted |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
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I was thinking of a mummy in the traditional sense...
like the
^^ type |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
OMG U DID SOMETHING BAD. |
no worries, i asked mr. associated press for permission, you can email them if you will lose any sleep over it |
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| infinity HiGH |
The FBI is on their way stren.
RUN!!! |
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| dj_bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
The FBI is on their way stren.
RUN!!! |
Nice try...but the FBI doesn't have any jurisdiction outside the US. The CIA however...:nervous: |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
The FBI is on their way stren.
RUN!!! |
*clibes the fence*
*stashes the dope...eerr i mean computer* |
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| XoxidE |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
“Standing outside, one could smell death,” Owens said.
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:stongue: :haha: :crazy: :tongue2 :nervous: |
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| Ygrene |
| Well, that's bull. This means the Nielsen Ratings data from the last 2.5 years is invalid. |
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
Well, that's bull. This means the Nielsen Ratings data from the last 2.5 years is invalid. |
:haha: |
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| Psiweaver |
| Nice Ygrene :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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