Woman Lived with Dead Roommate

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A 28-year-old woman may have kept the body of her roommate in their apartment for up to three weeks.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070308/D8NNNMAO1.html

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Ya know, after reading some of the posts about roommates over in Rantidote, this doesn't sound too bad. Sure, the roommate probably didn't pay any bills on time, but she kept quiet, didn't lock the roommate out, and didn't have sex with her boyfriend in the middle of the living room (hopefully).

Heck, a dead roommate is starting to sound pretty good.

[Not_Done_Living]

Originally Posted by dfresh

Ya know, after reading some of the posts about roommates over in Rantidote, this doesn't sound too bad. Sure, the roommate probably didn't pay any bills on time, but she kept quiet, didn't lock the roommate out, and didn't have sex with her boyfriend in the middle of the living room (hopefully).

Heck, a dead roommate is starting to sound pretty good.

But they also don't tend to shower, and after a few days attract flies....

[dfresh]

Originally Posted by Not_Done_Living

But they also don't tend to shower, and after a few days attract flies....

Sounds like my freshman year roommate. He also played the stereo quite loud at 3 AM when he came in drunk, and left clothing on the floor.

So far, I am leaning towards the dead one.

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by dfresh

Sounds like my freshman year roommate. He also played the stereo quite loud at 3 AM when he came in drunk, and left clothing on the floor.

To be fair, it says the dead woman was under a pile of clothing on the floor, so I don't think she was picking up after herself either.

You know that if you wrap them up in plastic, they don't stink so much.

Not that I would know...

[stagemanager0610]

Sounds like my freshman year roommate. He also played the stereo quite loud at 3 AM when he came in drunk, and left clothing on the floor.

So far, I am leaning towards the dead one.

Yep, I have to agree with you on this, I'd much prefer a dead roomate than my first of three different college ones. Actually, I think I'd still pick the dead body over my second, but my third one is better then the corpse, IMO.

[F Minor]

Originally Posted by stagemanager0610

my third one is better then the corpse, IMO.

You sure give the best compliments.

[medtchva]

Originally Posted by Not_Done_Living

But they also don't tend to shower, and after a few days attract flies....

Not even a few days.. a dead body can attract flies within minutes.

[snopes]

A desire for drugs was so strong a 28-year-old Canton Township woman spent three weeks scamming nearly $2,000 from the father of her dead roommate while the body rotted in their apartment under a heap of clothes.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...703090391/1003

[TrishDaDish]

This is reminding me of that demented short story someone posted here a while back. Something about a woman in the south (I think during or after the Civl War) who doesn't leave her house and there's a stench from her house her neighbors try to rectify without her knowing. "Rose" something...

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Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."

- snopes

[TrishDaDish]

What kind of Snopester am I, not knowing it's a Faulkner story! (Oh yeah, the kind that's only read that one short story by Faulkner. I think I should pencil the title down somewhere...)

Originally Posted by Richard W

To be fair, it says the dead woman was under a pile of clothing on the floor, so I don't think she was picking up after herself either.

Did she make sure to hide her own body before she died!?

Maybe I should read the story first...

[High Eight]

Originally Posted by Richard W

To be fair, it says the dead woman was under a pile of clothing on the floor, so I don't think she was picking up after herself either.

Lies motionless under a pile of dirty clothes and stinks the room out? I've known live students that fitted that description.