Are you a hoarder? Do you clutter up your home with piles upon piles of stuff?
Here’s a really compelling reason not to be one!
The family of a 69-year-old man in San Jose, California, had reported him missing for more than two weeks. The man, Stanley Jacobson, had dementia.
His family, neighbors, and police searched several times for him in his apartment but couldn’t find him, although Jacobson was there all along.
Finally, his adult granddaughter found his body under a huge pile of bedding, so thick that it masked the smell of the decomposing corpse.
CBS5 San Francisco reports, March 8, 2013, that 46-year-old Regina Louise Butler was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in the stabbing death of a San Jose man, whose body was found that day, weeks after his family had reported him missing, San Jose police said.
San Jose police arrested Butler following the discovery of the body of a man identified as Stanley Jacobson, by his family members around 11:30 a.m. Thursday, police said.
When police arrived, they found Jacobson, who had been fatally stabbed, inside his residence at Hilltop Manor, a low-income apartment complex for seniors at 790 Ironwood Drive in South San Jose.
Jacobson’s family had filed a missing person’s report on him on Feb. 18 and a neighbor had last seen Jacobson, who suffered from dementia, at his home on Ironwood Drive on Feb. 5.
The 69-year-old man’s body was overlooked by relatives, neighbors and police in the early search of his home.
Officials say Stanley Jacobson’s granddaughter finally discovered the corpse Thursday under a pile of bedding, which officers had photographed two weeks earlier when they searched the home in the Hilltop Manor retirement community.
Jacobson’s granddaughter and neighbors had visited the apartment numerous times since he went missing, but the pile of bedding was big enough to mask the decomposing body’s odor.
Neighbors describe Butler as the girlfriend of Jacobson.
Butler, identified in a police report as a transient with a criminal record, is set to appear in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Monday.
~Eowyn
