Man Realizes Brother Dead 18 Months Later
Thu Feb 5, 4:41 PM ET
LONDON - Police are investigating the case of an elderly man who apparently didn't discover that his brother had died in their mobile home until 18 months later.
On Dec. 3, Herbert Silver, 72, called police to tell them of the "sudden death" of his 75-year-old brother, George. When authorities visited the scene, they found a decomposing body.George's cadaver was found in his bedroom in the home in Fordingbridge, a town in southern England.
Police declined to comment Thursday about what might have happened, saying an inquest would be held about how Herbert Silver could not have noticed for so long that his brother was dead.
A post-mortem examination could not find a cause of death, but police ruled out suspicious circumstances.
The inquest is scheduled to begin on Feb. 19, a Hampshire police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity.
Woman slept with dead husband for two years
A Czech woman slept beside her dead husband every night for almost two years because she could not accept his death.Czech police said the 67-year-old widow had climbed into bed every night with the dead man at her home in Peckov in the Czech Republic.
She had apparently told friends and family he was "bed-ridden" .
Police were tipped off by neighbours worried that she was acting strangely. They said they had not seen the man for 18 months.
Jana Tomaskova, a neighbour of the widow, told Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes: "I just think she loved him so much that she couldn't bear to be separated from him."
Story filed: 12:50 Tuesday 3rd February 2004
POSTED: 11:56 a.m. EST February 4, 2004TACOMA, Wash. -- As both his election and cash losses mount, Howard Dean made another campaign appearance in Seattle on Wednesday morning.
Dean told a cheering crowd in Tacoma on Tuesday night he's still the only candidate who can bring true change to Washington and the White House. He drew his loudest cheers when he reminded supporters that he alone among the remaining Democratic presidential candidates opposed the war in Iraq.
Dean promises his campaign will keep going and going like the Energizer bunny. But for Dean, the challenge isn't energy -- it's money.
Dean says he had to take some risks with his now-depleted $40 million campaign fund early in the race because he wasn't well known. But, he acknowledges, those risks didn't pay off.
The former Vermont governor still hopes to slow John Kerry's momentum with wins in Washington state, Michigan and Wisconsin.