Found Illinois Woman Finds Husband’s Body in Home Eight Months After He Disappeared

[Turd Fergusen]

An Illinois woman found her husband’s dead 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 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 a 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.”

Richard’s body had decomposed to the point of mummification.

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

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Illinois woman finds husband’s body in home eight months after he disappeared

“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…

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[cubby]

How did she not smell him if the neighbors did?

 

[knockout]

How did she not smell him if the neighbors did?

they all did, seems the cops were of the Keystone kind

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

 

[thuumpr]

Sewage? Ever think of calling a plumber?

Says a lot about their relationship that killing himself doesn't get him any further away.

 

[HEREIBE22]

I lived in a part of Columbus, Ohio that smelled like sewage really strong especially in the mornings... It was a city drainage issues so a plumber couldn't help it.

 

[Bipedalprimate]

probably hoarders

 

[cubby]

believed it was sewage.

Sewage is a horrible smell, but a dead body is worst, obviously none of them had ever smelled something dead, then.

 

[Sejanus]

Isn't this how a horror movie starts?

 

[Freyja]

Sewage is a horrible smell, but a dead body is worst, obviously none of them had ever smelled something dead, then.

I have never smelled a dead body. What would be a good description? My husband smelled death when his unit was in the Middle East for a few month. He says it is a smell you never forget and can't mistake for anything else.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

probably hoarders

The rest of the article (that I did not include in my post) referred to the place as a "hoarder house".

 

[Sejanus]

I have never smelled a dead body. What would be a good description? My husband smelled death when his unit was in the Middle East for a few month. He says it is a smell you never forget and can't mistake for anything else.

He is 100% correct.
It changes you.

Think rotten meat and rotting fruit, like peaches and pears gone way bad.

 

[Bipedalprimate]

The rest of the article (that I did not include in my post) referred to the place as a "hoarder house".

yup that rotting body just mixed in with the filth perfume

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

She looks like a smoker (vertical lines above her lip) and smokers can't smell very well.
She probably caught a whiff initially, but then went nose blind, forgot about the whole thing.
If the inevitable smell from the hoarding didn't bother her, then, yeah....

 

[DeeDee]

So I guess she was the hoarder. I wonder if that's part of what led to the suicide. Just couldn't take the mess anymore. And ironically disappeared into it himself.

I hope this will encourage her to clean the house properly and get some kind of help. If your house is so filthy and smelly you can't even locate the dead body in the closet, you probably need a team of helpers and a few dumpsters.

This is really sad to be honest. The mental illness involved in all this cant be easy to live with.

 

[cubby]

I have never smelled a dead body. What would be a good description? My husband smelled death when his unit was in the Middle East for a few month. He says it is a smell you never forget and can't mistake for anything else.

I've never smelled a dead human, but a dead deer smells about the same and it is a horrendous smell, you will never forget it that's for sure. Of course, according to Cindy Anthony, rotten pizza smells like a dead body, but George knew better.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

So I guess she was the hoarder. I wonder if that's part of what led to the suicide.

If you were to have read the article, you'd see that they found him hanging in a closet.

When I was a kid, I remember my friend's mom called mine franticly that her son was missing. A group quickly formed, and they canvassed the neighborhood and called the police. In the end he was watching TV in their basement with the lights turned off. She "thought" he had gone upstairs and, in a panic, never searched her own fucking house first. I don't think there are any areas of my house that I don't go into on an at least every-other-day basis. I have a detached garage and shed that don't get visited much, but I know if one of my kids went missing, I'd peak in there. This case is very odd. Then again, I'm not a hoarder.