How could Ms. Jennifer Maedge of Troy City, USA, not have imagined that she was a little "hoarder", hiding too many things at home for many years, which indirectly led to a very terrible consequence:
Husband Richard committed suicide in the closet of his bedroom, and his body was hidden for eight months before it was found...
This strange suicide case has to start in the middle of last year.
On April 26, Richard woke up early and told his wife, Jennifer, that he was going to work early.
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Jennifer didn't pay much attention at the time, and after a while she went out on her own.
When she returned home, she noticed a hint of abnormality:
Her husband, Richard, disappeared and said he was going to work, but the car was parked outside the door, and his wallet and keys were left at home.
At first, Jennifer thought that her husband was in a hurry, so she didn't think badly, but in the evening, her husband did not show up, and no one answered the phone.
The next day, Jennifer asked around for news that she didn't have her husband, and ran to the Trojan police station to call the police.
The police rushed to Jennifer's house as soon as possible, and after listening to Jennifer's description, the officers decided to look for it at home first.
In the eyes of the officers, there were so many things in the room that Richard had an accident and collapsed in a corner.
After starting the search, the officers realized that there were so many things in this house!
It took them a while to clear a road that made it easier for officers to enter and search.
The officers carefully searched every corner of the house and found no trace of Richard, but one officer smelled something strange and said that there seemed to be a strange "sewer" smell in the house.
But looking in the direction of the smell, everyone still did not find anything abnormal.
After the police left, Jennifer herself smelled the odor, but she could not find the source of the smell.
After a few days, the smell began to intensify, and Jennifer still felt that something was wrong, so she called the police again and called the police to search the door.
This time, the police brought more people, they went crazy, searched the entire house inside and out, and even some people dug around the house, but still did not find anything abnormal.
After the police left again, Jennifer also began to ponder, she thought that this smell may really come from the sewers, so she called a plumber to check, and after checking it, the plumber affirmed that the smell was the gas emitted by the sewers.
He immediately decided to add a lid to the floor drain in the house, saying that he would wait two days to see the effect.
After a few days, Jennifer really felt that the odor had eased a lot, and she was no longer entangled.
On the other hand, there is still no news of the missing Richard, and the police can only handle the case according to the standard process, first issuing search notices in various places in Troy City, and then publishing the news of Richard's disappearance in various media.
But months have passed, and Richard still has no news, as if the world has evaporated...
Jennifer was very sad and sad, but she had to live her life, after all, there were three children at home.
In the blink of an eye, the end of the year, Christmas is approaching, although misfortune has occurred at home, but for the sake of the children, the festival must be made up.
Jennifer never dreamed that this decision to celebrate Christmas would allow her to finally find her husband...
On December 11, the family bought back a Christmas tree, and Jennifer remembered that she also had a collection of Christmas tree decorations that she used to use, and she took it out this year to continue using.
So she went into the bedroom and opened a more secluded closet door, some unused items, Jennifer would lock them in this inconspicuous looking closet.
After Jennifer opened the closet and dragged out the large bag containing the Christmas tree decoration, she suddenly noticed something unusual in the depths of the closet:
A humanoid object is lying quietly in the closet, like a dried corpse...
Although highly decayed to the point of resembling a mummy, Jennifer immediately recognized it as her husband Richard, who had been missing for nearly eight months!
Jennifer called police to inform police that she had found her husband's body.
This time, officers came to the door with the medical examiner and took Richard's body to the medical examiner's laboratory for autopsy.
Last Thursday, the city of Troy medical examiner finally released an autopsy report confirming that Richard's body had no visible injuries and that he had died by suicide.
By the time the body was found, Richard's body had passed the stage of decay and had entered "mummification".
Because the police have visited the door twice, and the body has not been found when the house is reported to have a peculiar smell, public opinion believes that it is necessary for the police to explain the reason to the outside world.
In this regard, the explanation given by the police is as follows:
Because Jennifer had so many things in her house, it was a "hoarding house", and the closet where the corpse was hidden was so hidden and well sealed that they couldn't find the closet on two visits, so they didn't have a chance to open it.
As for the smell that had appeared in the house, the forensic doctor explained:
After Richard himself hid in the closet to commit suicide, in the early stages of decomposition, the body did emit a peculiar smell, but because the closet was well sealed, after a period of time, the liquid in the corpse evaporated and gradually became a dry corpse, that is, after "mummification", the smell emitted by the corpse became weaker and weaker.
Jennifer never smelled again, part of the reason the body was able to hide for so long.
In addition, the police and medical examiner further added:
They do not believe that Richard died of murder or crime because, from the autopsy results, there are no other scars on Richard's body and there is no evidence of any evil element to his death.
At the end of the day, this is an unfortunate suicide...
The truth about Richard's disappearance has finally come out, although the outcome is not what his wife Jennifer wanted, let alone what she expected.
The cause of her husband's suicide Richard has not yet been identified. But she herself expressed her gratitude to the police for the investigation.
However, Jennifer's recollection of the time when her husband disappeared now sounds somewhat frightening:
Jennifer said that during her husband's disappearance, she always felt that he was close to her and had a feeling that he was "nearby"...