The Odd Couple

New York Woman Found Living With Husband's Skeleton
NEW YORK — A man hoping to reconcile with his parents made a grisly find in their Brooklyn apartment, police said: His mother may have been living with his father's corpse for three years.
Police said Paul Iversen went to his parents' Bay Ridge apartment on Tuesday to make amends after years of estrangement. When he arrived, his mother, Joanne, told him his father, Frank, had died, police said.
Then she showed her son the skeletal remains of an adult man, stored under bed covers in her bedroom, according to police.

Several neighbors said they noticed a foul smell emanating from the Iversens' first-floor apartment but couldn't fathom the source. (OK, foul smell for any period longer than say 3 days, assume somethings up. She may have been a rotten cook; but the odds of her cooking a foul smelling concoction longer than maybe three days at a time are pretty low. If it's a continuous foul smell for a couple of years, I would think someone would have had the brains to call it in, or have the super check it out)

I'm going to tell Mocha-momma: if you want to keep my skeletal remains around if I die in the house, put me with my lap-top in the Lazy-Boy, leg rest up.

The article doesn't give any further explanation. Did the lady have Alzheimers, was she collecting social security benefits, was she still sleeping with the skeleton. It all seems kind of odd to me.