Woman kept boyfriend's body for 18 mo. 'so she had someone to watch NASCAR with'

[CuriousHousewife]

The first thing I think of in these strange cases is how they could stand the whole rotting flesh smell thing.

 

[wfgodot]

Faulkner is my favorite novelist and "A Rose for Emily" is pretty tame compared to many of his other works. Yes, the ending is eerie, but it hardly compares to the overt sadism of works like SANCTUARY or ABSALOM! ABSALOM!

Absalom, Absalom! is da bomb, the best, Faulkner again playing with the notion of the past:

Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn't matter: that pebble's watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm.

 

[LadyL]

Nascar, my ***. This guy was receiving social security, pension checks and veteran benefits. So since he wasn't reported dead, where did all this money go?

"Wally Zigler, 48, said his father worked in a machine shop and received Social Security, pension checks and veteran benefits. He said he tried to see his dad, but Chase wouldn't let him in the house."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57470712/mich-woman-i-tended-corpse-watched-nascar/

she wouldn't let him in the house?!

I'd be "get the ef outta the way beotch or I'm knocking you down"

seriously

 

[PATX]

If my husband watched games with scores of 9 to 6, he'd need his own TV in a locked room.

Which is exactly what I have.

Have you been talking to Mrs. PATX?

 

[jjenny]

I may be lambasted here, but I don't think this woman's motive for not reporting the death is strictly a financial one. If I want to pretend my BF is still alive so I can continue to collect his SSI checks, all I need do is bury the fella in the backyard or otherwise keep the body hidden away somewhere.

This woman cleaned and dressed this body and kept it in her home watching tv with it and such. None of that is needed to carry out a financial fraud with his benefits.

Well, I doubt it was simply to watch NASCAR either.
Considering she is investigated for financial fraud, and he was entitled to benefits and social security.

 

[tlcya]

my post is not in disagreement with your view. I just think the financial aspect was not the ONLY aspect for her. I do not believe for one moment that she did this simply for a NASCAR buddy, but I do beleive there are some er, issues here aside from social security fraud.

 

[Steely Dan]

Quite sad really.

Woman kept dead boyfriend's body in her house for
18 months 'so she had someone to watch NASCAR with' (Daily Mail

the rest at link above

I agree, very sad. While she was taking the money I think there is a lot more to this.

That story (and this one) is the perfect metaphor for Faulkner's oft-quoted line from Requiem for Nun, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."

Meanwhile, it's nice to have my perception of NASCAR fans confirmed. I'm glad to learn I wasn't indulging a derogatory stereotype unfairly.

BBM

:giggle:

I'm a NASCAR fan. :blushing:

My wife won't let me be in the same room as her when I am watching LSU football games. I rather doubt she would keep my corpse around the house.

I am so unloved.

Since you're an LSU fan you should friend Kimberly125. She's a huge LSU fan too.

How sad is that? She's 72 years old and that was the only man that was nice to her?

The rate the Phillies are going I guess I'll need a body to watch the games with me. The problem will be bringing them to home games.

It truly must stink getting old for real.

BBM

I figured you've known that for years. :truce:

 

[jjenny]

my post is not in disagreement with your view. I just think the financial aspect was not the ONLY aspect for her. I do not believe for one moment that she did this simply for a NASCAR buddy, but I do beleive there are some er, issues here aside from social security fraud.

Since she is elderly, it would be very difficult (physically) for her to dig a grave on her own.

 

[tlcya]

disengaging. No wish to :deadhorse: I do not think our views are that different.

 

[Oblio]

Since she is elderly, it would be very difficult (physically) for her to dig a grave on her own.

Change the bolded word to "may". She's seventy-two. I know a seventy-one year old landlord who can take a 4'x8' sheet of plywood up a latter and on to a roof all by her lonesome self. My own grandmother, nearly ninety, has trouble with balance and achy bones, but has the determination that seems to be lacking in my own generation. I'm certain she could dig a grave if she needed to. Might take her a few weeks, but she'd get it done. Trust me.

 

[Nova]

Absalom, Absalom! is da bomb, the best, Faulkner again playing with the notion of the past:

It is my favorite of his books. I had to get a little older (late 20s rather than 19) to fully appreciate it, but it was worth the wait.

 

[Nova]

I'm a NASCAR fan. :blushing:
....

One of the living ones or the other kind?

(Thanks for recognizing what was just a joke, Dan.)

 

[fearless]

Most beautiful "Love Story", she kept her wows even after ... dead us part!
Yes Faulkner!

Roses...

I am so unloved./QUOTE]
Poor you! Sad you will never know.... LOL
BTW love your avatar!

I am happy that most of you still believe and hope it is LOVE, love, love, love, as I do!

 

[STANDREID]

We Formula One fans don't have a problem watching the races alone - we're used to it.

 

[jjenny]

Change the bolded word to "may". She's seventy-two. I know a seventy-one year old landlord who can take a 4'x8' sheet of plywood up a latter and on to a roof all by her lonesome self. My own grandmother, nearly ninety, has trouble with balance and achy bones, but has the determination that seems to be lacking in my own generation. I'm certain she could dig a grave if she needed to. Might take her a few weeks, but she'd get it done. Trust me.

And I guess no neighbor was going to wonder as to what she was digging there for a few weeks?

 

[Steely Dan]

We Formula One fans don't have a problem watching the races alone - we're used to it.

Well when a lot of races are at 3am it's not surprising. :floorlaugh:

 

[Oblio]

And I guess no neighbor was going to wonder as to what she was digging there for a few weeks?

Digging went pretty much unnoticed for Dorthea Fuentes. :shrug: She was on a city lot in downtown Sacramento, too. My grandma is actually a little too resourceful to do much digging. I could envision a new tomato planter, myself. (Sorry, that's bad.)

 

[panthera]

my post is not in disagreement with your view. I just think the financial aspect was not the ONLY aspect for her. I do not believe for one moment that she did this simply for a NASCAR buddy, but I do beleive there are some er, issues here aside from social security fraud.

Serious issues, in my opinion, of the psychological nature. I cannot fathom someone in their right mind keeping a corpse in their home, let alone cleaning and redressing it.



MOO

 

[panthera]

We Formula One fans don't have a problem watching the races alone - we're used to it.

That is so true!!

 

[montana_16]

We may have just found a new line for Jeff Foxworthy.