Woman's remains found in occupied house
NECEDAH — A sheriff’s deputy discovered the remains of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in a house she shared with a woman and two children, authorities said Friday.
Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth charged 35-year-old Tammy Lewis and 57-year-old Alan Bushey (pronounced “boo-SHAY”) with two felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child. Lewis was also charged with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor.
By Friday night, the children had been placed in foster care, both adults remained in custody and an autopsy had been done but results won’t be available for some time, said Sheriff Brent Oleson. “At this time we don’t know what the cause of death was,” he said. “Quite frankly it might have been natural causes.”
He described the one-story home in the town of Necedah as in decent repair, although the residents had been using “makeshift” toilet facilities because of the situation in the one bathroom. “It’s a sad case and we’ll continue to investigate it and try to ascertain just what occurred up there,” Oleson said.
According to the criminal complaint, Bernice Metz contacted the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday and asked if a deputy could check on her 90-year-old sister, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth. Metz said no one had heard from Middlesworth for some time.
May 10, 2008 at 3:19 p.m.
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People are pretty sick when a keep a corpse around just so they can cash the social security check
May 10, 2008 at 1:39 p.m.
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when its time to go......
May 10, 2008 at 12:49 p.m.
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pheasanthunter: never thought of that, but it does make one wonder.
May 10, 2008 at 11:33 a.m.
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What is wrong with people? To allow this is absurd where is the morals anymore? Thank God they took the children out of this situation and away from these sickos. My heart is with these children that had to see this for 2 months
May 10, 2008 at 11:01 a.m.
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Can you amagine what the house smells like..Not only from a dead person in there but from the "make shift" toliet...Gross...
May 10, 2008 at 9:09 a.m.
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From http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3548...
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"Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious "superior" who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday."
May 10, 2008 at 8:56 a.m.
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Where does it say she had been in there for weeks? I read the article 3 times and it doesn't give you any clue as to how long she had been dead before they found her.
May 10, 2008 at 8:46 a.m.
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This is really sad.
Those 2 children are going to need a lot of therapy.
May 10, 2008 at 8:29 a.m.
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I wonder how long she was dead and how many of her Social Security Checks got cashed?
May 10, 2008 at 7:55 a.m.
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what kind od sicko would leave a dead person on the toilet for weeks/ months?????
May 10, 2008 at 7:38 a.m.
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WOW WOW WOW
May 10, 2008 at 2:22 a.m.
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Makes me wonder about about my neighbours.
May 10, 2008 at 12:04 a.m.
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May 9, 2008 at 10:42 p.m.
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crazy crazy people out there.....
May 9, 2008 at 8:17 p.m.
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OMG
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