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Residents lived with 90-year-old's corpse on toilet for months
A man, woman and two teenage children apparently shared a house in Necedah Township, Wisconsin with a corpse for two months before authorities found the body. At least one of the adults in the house insisted the dead woman inside wasn't "fully dead," and that they could pray her back to life.
Earlier this week, sheriff's deputies in Juneau County, just east of Tomah, went to a home in Necedah Township to check on the welfare of 90 year old Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth, after the woman's sister reported she had not heard from her in some time. When deputies arrived, the woman who answered the door at first refused to let deputies check on Middlesworth.The woman, Tammy Lewis, finally relented, and allowed the deputy to search the house. He found Middlesworth's remains in a heap on what appeared to be a toilet. Police reports indicate the smell of decay was "overpowering." The deputy ordered Lewis to take both of her children, ages 12 and 15, out of the house, due to the smell.
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Camera on stolen laptop helps owner catch thieves
A tech-savvy White Plains woman whose apartment was robbed solved the crime herself after she was able to log on to her stolen laptop, photograph one of the suspects with it and get photos of another, police said.
Edmon Shahikian, 23, of 13 Cobbling Rock Road, Katonah, and Ian Frias, 20, of 1609 E. 174th St., the Bronx, were picked up at their homes on Wednesday night after the victim turned the pictures over to police. The police said they recovered most of the $5,000 worth of electronics stolen in the burglary.
On Tuesday, police said, one of the victims, who works at The Apple Store in The Westchester mall, received a call from a friend asking her if she was online. The victim said no, and was told by the friend that his computer showed her as being logged onto the Internet.
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Camera thief caught on tape
Garden Grove police said yesterday they are still searching for a man who was caught on surveillance footage stealing high-tech surveillance cameras.The thief stole four cameras from the outside of a commercial building housing REVCO Industries said Garden Grove police Lt. Dave Kivler.
Apparently it did not occur to the thief that the cameras were recording, Kivler said, adding that the man was probably attracted to the new and hi-tech nature of the devices. But he was correct in his assumptions that they would take very clear pictures, Kivler said.
The footage shows the man stealing each of the four cameras and captures him start to sweat from his labor and remove his jacket, Kivler said. He appears to favor his left hand, signaling that he could be left-handed, Kivler said.
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