NJ - Man dead in home for a year before body found

[wfgodot]

Reclusive Wayne man had been dead in his home for a year

Donald Domsky was a fixture at the small diner in Wayne where patrons knew him as a trivia wiz, though they didn't know his last name. Neighbors often offered the septuagenarian lifts on his miles-long ambles through town, but he never accepted.

He lived alone in a small gray-blue ranch house with a rusted pickup in the driveway. Paint peeled from the window frames and gutters dangled from the roof. The lawn was leaf-covered and an old water heater sat abandoned near the driveway.

Always a bit unkempt, the house had fallen into serious disrepair over the course of a year. That's about how long it took for neighbors and police to learn that he was dead inside.

Through a series of small oversights and mistaken assumptions, it wasn't until last week that police found his body.
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[hollyblue]

How sad. May you rest in peace now Donald.

 

[wfgodot]

How sad. May you rest in peace now Donald.

Amen to that, hollyblue.

 

[tlcya]

Aw. This is so sad. Poor fellow, to not be missed, for that long.

 

[MagnoliaMom]

That is just sad. A whole year...