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Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - Medicine Woman - 07-14-2012
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Police in Jackson, Mich., are investigating why a 72-year-old woman kept the body of a friend in her house for more than a year and a half after he died, reportedly cleaning him and watching TV with him.
Police found the mummified body of Charles Zigler, 67, on Friday, covered with blankets in a living room recliner, in the home of his long-time friend Linda Chase, according to local media reports.
"He just went to sleep," Chase told WILX-TV.
Officers went to Chase’s house after a family member became concerned for his welfare and called police, Lt. Chris Simpson told mlive.com.
It's unclear why the family member, who was not identified, waited so long to call. Simpson did not immediately return a telephone call to msnbc.com on Wednesday for comment.
An autopsy determined Zigler died of natural causes -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- around Christmas 2010, according to the medical examiner.
Chase admitted to police that she cashed Zigler's Social Security checks and kept his body, mlive.com reported.
Police are investigating and will submit a report to the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office for review and possible charges, including fraud, Simpson said, according to mlive.com.
The prosecutor’s office said Wednesday the police were still reviewing the case.
Chase acknowledged to reporters she should have called authorities when Zigler died, but said she wasn’t ready to let go and didn’t want to be alone.
“That’s morbid what I did. It really is. It’s horrible,” she told WLNS-TV.
She called Zigler “my best friend” and said she could tell him “anything.”
“I knew I should have called the ambulance. I know that. I know that in my heart. I didn’t do it to be evil,” she told WLNS.
For more than a year after he died, Chase cleaned him, talked to him and watched NASCAR races on TV with him, mlive.com reported.
Walter “Wally” Zigler said his father had been ill for years. He had emphysema and used an oxygen tank to breathe, the son told mlive.com.
Walter Zigler learned of his father’s death on Tuesday.
“That wasn’t right to leave him lay like that,” he told mlive.com.
Walter Zigler, who lives in Jackson, said his father had worked for years in a Jackson shop and received Social Security and pension checks and veteran benefits. He said he tried more than once to visit his father but Chase “wouldn’t let me see him,” mlive.com reported.
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - Gunnen4u - 07-14-2012
Ah the things people will lie and do to collect social security checks.
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - twisteroo - 07-14-2012
A year and a half, really?
No contact at all in a year and a half and they didn't start to wonder?
Fucking white trash.
And what about the smell?
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - Twitchin Kitten - 07-14-2012
I don't even know what to say. Twist covered it nicely.
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - Twilla - 07-14-2012
He looks almost lifelike in that photo.
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - Discarda - 07-14-2012
(07-14-2012, 01:03 AM)Gunnen4u Wrote: Ah the things people will lie and do to collect social security checks.
I would not share my personal space with a cadaver for social security checks FML that is some lame shit breh.
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - LKTraz - 07-15-2012
Unbefuckinglieveable! Now for her to say that it was morbid is the understatement of the century!!!!!!!!
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - Discarda - 07-15-2012
Plus the real fact is it was just to claim money, if the guy didn't have social security checks she would havwe phoned the hospital/mortician straight away, morbid obsession my ass.
RE: Woman kept dead friend in house to watch NASCAR with - LKTraz - 07-15-2012
Regardless of the reason, that's just plain sick shit right there man.