The Mummy
Note to my future caretaker: I do not want my mummified body to be sitting in front of a TV for the rest of eternity. I have done enough of that already. Instead, maybe you can put me in a rock-climbing pose, in a permanent state of rappeling. Something cool, and EXTREME! Anyway, Kathy Painter, a caretaker for Johannas Pope, preserved Pope’s body in front of a TV, per her orders. Officials discovered the body 2.5 years after Pope died. The most disturbing part of this had to be:
Painter left Pope’s body in a chair in an air-conditioned room on the second floor of their Davies Place home.
Investigators learned that Painter took care of Pope’s body - trying to preserve it.
Owens said Painter put on gloves and removed the maggots from Pope’s body daily.
He said she used bug spray when they became too numerous to remove by hand. Investigators found 17 cans of bug spray in the house, he said.
“She really took care of (the body),” Owens said.
Painter even bought Pope new clothes just before officials discovered her body.
“She bought new clothes because she thought this was the time period she was coming back,” Owens said.
Then, the air conditioner that had been helping preserve the body broke. I can’t even imagine the smell. But don’t worry, Painter will be OK, as there is no law in Ohio mandating the report of a dead body.
Linky: enquirer.com (Cincinnati)
Oh how I love thee. I’ve been doing a lot of purchasing from the iTMS. Mainly TV shows, shorts, and anything else that catches my eye. My biggest purchase? The A-Team Season 1. Now I’m not a big fan of going out and actually buying DVDs of old TV shows. I just can’t justify spending 39.99-59.99 on a TV series I have already seen. Nevertheless, I was a little caught off guard when I found myself clicking the “Buy Season” button for the A-Team.