CINCINNATI - A dead woman dressed in white was positioned in a chair in front of a television set for 2 1/2 years because she told her caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned to return, the coroner said.

"Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens said Monday in describing Johannas Pope's wishes. "Don't bury me. I'm coming back."

Pope, 61, died Aug. 29, 2003. Her caretaker and friend, whose name has not been released, left the woman upstairs in the home with the television and air conditioning on while the body slowly decayed and mummified, authorities said.

Some family members continued to live downstairs in the house since her death.

Police went to the house last Wednesday after a relative who hadn't seen Pope in 2 1/2 years called them. They found a staircase behind a door blocked by a basket and climbed to the second floor where they found the body.

"Standing outside, one could smell death," Owens said.

Owens said he had not determined the cause of death but found no signs of abuse or foul play.

Authorities are working to determine whether any crimes were committed, but Owens said the caretaker and family members apparently did not benefit in any way by keeping Pope.
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Nasty.

Ugh.

Can you imagine all the reruns her poor corpse must have seen?

eeww

So, what's going to happen to the body?

lol,no doubt,nobody deserves that

How could you stand that smell?
Those people are messed up.

who wouldn't like the smell of a decomposing body,smells better than poo,thats for sure,

Ok, that's spooky.

EWWWWWWWWWW!

...I can't figure out what's creepier, the fact she said she was coming back, or the fact family members were still living in the house and didn't notice anything for 2 1/2 years ...

ugh...I can't believe "caregiver" agreed to that ...

that is sick .
how could they still live there in the house with a dead body??
And not even tell anyone about it

huh...
They didn't know! You should concentrate yourself and read with more attention (god, I can't believe that I just said that, I am not the one to teach others about being attentive)

That's horrible. All the diseases you could catch. What is there were children!

how could they not know???
do you know how badly a dead body decomposing smells like ?
even with an air condition on you can still smell it .
when l said l was refering to the caretaker and friend.



EDIT : l read the article , l concentrated with sooo muucchh ATTENTION thanks for your lesson !!

Yeah that creeped me out too. Poor old fool of a woman.


Now that I think about it, That's a pretty bad electric bill over 2 1/2 years.

Ewwwww . . . .

That's what I was thinking! Those people were sick in the head.

Generally if you haven`t seen an elderlty relative who lives up stairs for a couple of days you would worry. 2 1/2 years just seems far too unbelievable for them to have not noticied her missing.

Is there a law against keeping someones body? I mean hell yeah it's disgusting but is it illegal?

If I told my BF not to burry me I was coming back.....he would have me cramated

a tv left on for over 2 years... i say the tv had to be shot to hell, could have been a fire hazzard as well..especially with a decomposing body.

this is really gross!! who the hell wants to share a house with a dead corspe.

Wait? they didnt see theyre elderly relative for 2 and a half years but thought she was still alive?????? Darwin Award!

BTW dont touch that TV,I bet its smoking like a grill from 2 1/2 years of non-stop use. I wonder what channel her corpse was watching?

In my family, there was a case in which my uncle came home one day. He was on a journey for 1 month. He had left a relative in charge of the house until he returned. When he returned, he smelled something terrible in the house, and when he entered the living room, the guy had died 15 days ago. Police came and the corpse was buried and that was the end, but my uncle had to go for about a month to live at a Days Inn because the smell didn't got out of his house. He finished burning his clothes, bed and the sofa, because the smell didn't got out. He spent thousands of dollars on trying to get rid of the smell, but he finally did.

hehe, I know people who would give a million bucks for not seeing even their own parents for a decade. Humanity is sad sometimes.

if i die i want to be in front of UM posting something ... and after many years i will finish it when i come back. and then i will tell you if heaven exists or not

nice all have day chair on cloud

Humm.. cheese..

From what I read in another paper the smell only became apparent when the air conditioning unit broke down. I'm assuming this means it became apparent downstairs. Could you set air coniditioning so low and cold it slows down the decomposing of a body?

Thats Disgusting, i cant see how you could not notice that.

So has she come back yet?

Probably the Christian Channel.