The physique of a 64-year-old man decomposed in a Pennsylvania home for roughly six months after a pair of family who lived within the residence didn’t report his demise till final week — shockingly claiming they have been unaware he had died, police mentioned.
Michael Bebout was discovered useless in his mattress inside a hoarder home crammed with animal feces final Thursday by Washington County authorities in Canton Township after the family members alerted police, Greene County Regional Police Chief William DeForte mentioned.
“[An officer] gets there and he’s greeted by the brother of the decedent … and the brother comes out and he’s all distraught and he says that he spent the night there last night and woke up and realized his brother’s dead,” DeForte instructed The Put up Wednesday.
Primarily based on the state of the physique, it seems Bebout was useless for round six months, based on the chief.
The house the place Bebout’s brother and sister-in-law had been staying was crammed with canine feces on the ground and piles of trash tossed round, he mentioned.
“You wouldn’t have noticed from the outside,” DeForte mentioned. “The inside was certainly compacted with trash and refuse and the floor was coated wall to wall with dog feces. Needless to say, the odors weren’t very pleasant.”
The couple lives a considerably transient life-style, however the filthy home has been their foremost residence, he added.
Whereas the family members declare they have been unaware their relative had been useless because the summer season, DeForte mentioned authorities are usually not shopping for that assertion.
No foul play is suspected, however authorities are probing if checks made out to Bebout have been illegally cashed after his demise. An investigation into the deceased man’s funds is ongoing.
