Current Events : Woman finds her husband's decomposed body in with the Christmas decorations

A Illinois woman found her dead husband's body inside their home nearly eight months after he disappeared.

Jennifer Maedge reported her husband, Richard Maedge, missing on the afternoon of April 27.

Police responded, searched the house and launched an investigation into his whereabouts.

Richard Maege — it turned out — didn’t go anywhere, Fox 59 reported on Monday.

On Dec. 11, Jennifer went to retrieve some Christmas decorations and was shocked to find her husband’s body in the closet where they were stored.

His death was ruled a suicide, according to report from the county coroner released Thursday.

“I decided to put the Christmas tree up, and I was looking for a tote of Christmas ornaments, and that’s when I discovered him,” Jennifer told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in December. “He had committed suicide.”

Richards’ body had decomposed to the point of mummification.

Jennifer, her neighbors and even cops themselves reported a foul odor coming from the home for months, but believed it was sewage.

Police described the house as a “hoarder home” which made it difficult to do a complete search for the missing man and, Jennifer said, the odor was never overwhelming.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/07/illinois-woman-jennifer-maedge-finds-husband-richard-maedges-body-in-home-after-he-disappeared/

Fuckin rednecks

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Dendrolagus Uranus

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If you are a law enforcement officer, and you can't tell the difference in smell between a decomposing human body and sewage, then you ain't no cop. You are a waste of life in a uniform taking reports and taking a job away from somebody who is real po-lice.

That person needs to be blindfolded with canisters of both things put in front of his nose and see if he can tell the difference.

I dunno anything about the police academy, not even the movies, but I would be surprised if they have any kind of smell class or anything like that.
Just because they are cops means they know every smell in the world???

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Maybe they assumed an experienced cop would've smelled a lot of corpses or a lot of sewage?

This reminds me of the case where there were these two bros in NYC in an earlier time where they were crazy hoarders of newspapers in their apt.
One of them died, and if I remember right, it took awhile before he was found.

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Wern't those brothers the sons of some really rich dude?

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The brothers were a result of inbreeding.

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It doesn't look like it:

Homer Lusk Collyer and Langley Wakeman Collyer were born in 1881 and 1885 respectively. They were born to a Manhattan doctor, and lived in tenements for the early part of their lives, while their father was still in medical school. When their father started to work at Bellevue Hospital, the brothers moved with their family to the brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue in Harlem. Both brothers attended Columbia University, where Homer studied maritime law while Langley studied engineering and chemistry.
When their parents separated in 1919, Homer and Langley, who had never married or lived alone, chose to stay with their mother in the Fifth Ave apartment. A few year later, in 1923, their father died, and left them with his cache of medical instruments and books. Their mother died six years later, and after her passing, the brothers continued to live in the brownstone they had shared with her.

You can read more here all about them:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/collyer-brothers

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Did you read that Dr. Was married to his first cousin.

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Dendrolagus Uranus

I must have missed that.

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The Collyer brothers were sons of Herman Livingston Collyer (1857–1923), a Manhattan gynecologist who worked at Bellevue Hospital, and his first cousin,[6] Susie Gage Frost Collyer (1856–1929), a former opera singer.

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Dendrolagus Uranus

You must have gotten that from another sauce.

So you think their inbreeding had something to do with their hoarding habits or with one of them going blind?

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Fuck you, asshole

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They must have one nasty ass hoarder house if the smell didn't bother them.

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Creepy

It happens.

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Sounds like me finishing my homework.

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You make no fucking sense

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Your homework used to get mixed up with the Christmas decorations?

Well, I used to kill myself and fall asleep downstairs all the time.

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The more I read, the less I felt sorry for the wife.

Wtf?!

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"Remember. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you."

I wonder why he killed himself and why in the Christmas closet?

Did he not want his wife to find him right away and to give her quite a shock when she did months later?

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I don't know, the whole thing is weird. I don't think you can apply any logic to it.

And I wanna know if she was able to carry on with putting up the decorations and with Christmas!

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If she did, the decorations must've stunk. Although she did say they were in a "tote." If she means a plastic container with a lid, maybe the smell didn't go through.

I just know that it would effect me to where I would be creeped out that I would not want to put them up that year and it would give me a sad or bad feeling about Christmas.
It would take me awhile to get over it.

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Yeah, I can't imagine she said, "Oh good, now that my husband's body is gone, I can get back to making my house look all Christmassy."

Maybe he got lost among all the junk and died of starvation.

Possibly!