Shopaholic spinster found dead under 3ft of unopened goods
A spinster who obsessively hoarded clothes died in her home after a mountain of suitcases fell on her, burying her alive. Joan Cunnane, 77, owned 300 scarves as well as thousands of trinkets and...
View ArticleFEMA pins blame on Louisiana gluttony. MREs ran out too fast in Gustav
BATON ROUGE -- Nearly five months after Hurricane Gustav, the public relations battle between Gov. Bobby Jindal and FEMA continues over who was to blame for the exasperating depletion of emergency food...
View ArticleThe Paper Chase
y father never had much use for fairy tales. The fifth of five brothers raised in a one-bedroom tenement on the Lower East Side, he preferred real-life grotesqueries. And so at bedtime, I would listen...
View ArticleChildren Pulled From a House of Filth
AMSTERDAM, Ohio -- Deputies found garbage wall to wall inside the Amsterdam home and now one parent is facing charges. The 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy are in the care of a foster parent tonight...
View ArticleHoarder Dies After Becoming Lost in Maze of His Own Trash
An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home then got lost in the maze of tunnels Friday and died of thirst. Human mole Gordon Stewart, 74,...
View ArticleAuthorities investigate how Valrico woman found among cats, clutter came to...
VALRICO It took 15 minutes to get through the front door of a $300,000 house. Investigators used broomsticks and mop handles to push away debris. From inside a gated Valrico community, they removed a...
View ArticleHouse Of Filth: Nearly 100 Cats Found In NJ Home
SPCA Officials Stunned After 2 Feet Of Feces Found In Room Of House Located In Million-Dollar Community Officers Say It's One Of The Worst Cases Ever Reported Reporting Sean Hennessey CHESTER TOWNSHIP,...
View Article52 cats taken from Elkhart woman's home
52 cats and one dog were removed from the home of a 76 year old Elkhart woman Tuesday by Elkhart Police Department's animal control officer and Humane Society workers. Elkhart Humane Society Assistant...
View ArticleFour Dogs Die From Neglect, One Dozen Rescued (Michigan)
Second sad story about abused dogs in the state.
View ArticleResearchers Find Clues to 'Pack-Rat' Urge
Attention, pack rats: science may have figured you out. Researchers say they've found an area of the brain that seems to govern the urge to collect. For most people, collecting is a perfectly healthy...
View ArticleLiving in squalor: Basically, it's your choice
Does someone have a right to live in squalor? Under New Hampshire law, the answer is yes but only to a point. Two recent cases, in which town officials took action against homeowners in Warner and...
View Article40 Dogs Siezed After Found Living In Filth
Over 40 dogs were seized from within the residence.Investigators tell NEWSCHANNEL 3 that the homeowner would cover her back yard in newspapers, then shovel them into piles once the dog feces was a half...
View ArticleHoarder pulled from trash-filled home taken to intensive care
Neighbors had complained before about Mary Minter's unkempt yard, littered with weeds and debris. But that was nothing compared to the interior of the 38-year-old's Sandy Springs bungalow, as...
View ArticleWoman Nearly Buried Alive by Garbage
Emergency crews were called to a Sandy Springs home Tuesday. When they arrived, they found a home filled with garbage and a woman nearly buried alive inside. Investigators said it took emergency...
View ArticleBody of Las Vegas woman found in clutter at home
LAS VEGAS (AP) A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman came to a ghastly end this week when her husband found her corpse in their home amid a labyrinth of squalor that had been impassable...
View ArticleProsecutors Office vows to crack down on food hoarding (Taiwan)
TAIPEI -- The Taiwan High Prosecutors Office vowed yesterday to harshly crack down on anyone caught hoarding food staples as part of the government's efforts to stabilize food prices amid a string of...
View Article'Food shortage in N. Korea overblown'(hoarding for next year?)
03-09-2011 16:56 'Food shortage in N. Korea overblown' By Na Jeong-ju North Korea appears to be cutting food rations for its people and soldiers to make the world believe that the food shortage there...
View ArticleDead Body Found in Hoarders Home. Missing Mother?
The body didn't appear to have injuries or trauma. There was an orange juice container found inside the plastic wrap that the body was in. The container was marked with a 2003 date but authorities...
View ArticleJapan: Tokyo supermarkets stripped bare as hoarding breaks out across region
Tokyo supermarkets stripped bare as hoarding breaks out across region Supermarkets in the Tokyo region have been stripped bare of food and other daily necessities in the wake of the March 11 Great East...
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