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Man Buys Foreclosed Home, Finds Corpse Inside
Every now and then a person comes along who completely redefines the concept of "buying sight unseen." That someone is longtime Cape Coral resident William Wilson who, at a foreclosure auction on Monday, purchased the house on SE 19th Lane with rusted iron gates on each window and every entrance. Four dead-bolts were chained at the front door. He paid $96,000.
So far so good. He arrived the next morning to evaluate his purchase, trim the hedges and mow the lawn. What he found inside was a body (and another case of immaculate bank due diligence).
A body was found today at this home on SE 19th Lane in Cape Coral.
A death investigation is being conducted.
According to the News-Press, "the corpse was on the floor of the master bedroom next to the bed. Longtime neighbors say an older woman from Miami last lived at the home with her sister, but they hadn't seen or heard from her for several years."
Some thought she moved, others said she just disappeared. Outside, the grass grew long and the community speculated. Inside, Wilson said all that remained were bones, skin and the smell of remains. In the living room was a bird cage and piles of feces.
"You couldn't tell who it was," Wilson said. "You couldn't tell if it was a male or a female ... it's disappointing and a sad thing that nobody cared enough to check."
And that, in a nutshell, is what America's New Abnormal is all about: a foreclosure process that last over three years since banks have no incentive to sell houses at a loss, and social de-evolution to such an extent that a dead person can literally rot inside their house with nobody even bothering to look. And of course, daily all time highs in the S&P500.
"The inside was a mess," Wilson said. "It looked like (someone) was packing to move. There were a lot of boxes, some pictures of children on the fridge."
Authorities told him the most recent piece of mail was from November of 2011 and unpaid taxes went back three years.
Finally, with a three year delay, the local police did their job. In retrospect, it's a miracle local murderers didn't decide to use the forgotten house as a dumping ground for dead bodies.
The Cape Coral Police Department responded to the scene Wednesday afternoon to conduct a death investigation. Officers cordoned the property with yellow caution tape. At dusk, one officer remained parked out front.
"It's sad about the whole thing," said Bill Harrigan, who lives across the street. "Nobody ever checked on her."
Wednesday night, residents stood outside their homes and watched law enforcement come and go along the two-lane road.
"I didn't know them," said Liz Palma, 55, of Cape Coral. "It's very strange, all those bars on the house. I never smelled anything ... that's just freaky. I'm freaked out."
Next-door neighbor Gary Oben Jr., 30, said he used to park his van in the driveway because no one was ever around. The woman was nice, but reclusive and didn't speak much English. He saw her a handful of times in a decade. She got the mail and she watered the lawn and liked his dogs.
The house was built in 2007 and previously owned by Carmen Garcia-Viso. "I had a hunch," Oben said. "Either it was a grow house or there was a dead lady in there."
It was the latter. It is unclear if the current owner, William Wilson, plans on flipping the house in the immediate future. Or the corpse.
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Foreclosed homes always come with a few extras - a few curses from the previous owners and a dead body or two.
There's never been a better time to buy a home!
There's never been a deader time to buy that home.
You can't take it with you.
Was the dead person a member of Obama’s Marine Corpse?
Yep, and he was from Barry's home state, the 57th state, Outer Kenya.
Was the corpse the former owner who defaulted?
Brings a whole new meaning to "Deadbeat."
if you like your dead person, you can keep your dead person...
And if not, you can trade him for what's behind Garage Door Number Two...
The owner should get a ticket, right? I thought keeping dead bodies in your house was against the law, sort of like not mowing your lawn, not repairing your fence and so on....
Give the man a citation or at least a stern warning!
The deadbolt at the front door was for some reason.
Realistically, what were the neighbours supposed to do?
Knock on the door. Oh, no answer. She must be out. Now what?
Mine had paper towels then concrete mix flushed down the sewer line.
Thanks for the idea ;-)
I always wanted to do that in McDonald's.
Mine had burst pipes and dog shit in the closet....at least I hope it was dog shit
Ours had dog AND cat shit mashed into the carpet upstairs. And the bathroom....
They can also notch the beams holding the place up. One nice storm and the place collaspes.
Also cut off the water pipes and let liquid cement through the copper/plastic water supply lines if they wern't stolen.
Eh...that Chinese drywall will do that
I don't know the exact numbers, but homes have been overbuilt by the millions and now the same is happening with apartments, the new "boom" according to a lot of city planners. I just see ghost houses and apartments. Good for squatters not so much for the Government.
A hearse is not a home (except in Coral Gable).
Well, every killer in America now knows where to dump bodies.
William will just replace the carpet and paint a few walls (in the room where the body was found), and flip that bad boy. 'Murica!
By next week, Gary will go back to thinking it's a grow house again.
There are pretty good signs it's still a seller's market out there even though in that particular neighborhood it appears a bit dead. Nonetheless it could revive with some fresh buyer blood thrown in the mix.
Everybody just needs to keep a stiff upper lip here and look at the prospects for a warm pulse to return again in buying a home.
Floridiots.
Floridolts
Now that's a real market moving story!
Don't you know this is a dead body?
Yeah, I know that shit!
He ain't bothering you, so don't fuck with him!
-Boyz n the Hood
Perfect metaphor of our current financial system.
$96,000 AND a body. Its a steal!
Exactly, that was a bonus that even a realtor could not have tossed into the deal. LOL.
a body has got to worth what......$2.50!!!!
2.50 is what a human body is worth to the US government, a live body they'll do anything to keep them alive and paying some taxes or enriching the 'healthcare' industry.
Should have taken out a life insurance policy on her.
I wonder if the house is haunted. Too bad this didn't come out before Halloween.
Especially if there were some gold teeth.
With iron gates on all the windows and four deadbolts on the door, she does not exactly sound like a social butterfly. Being a neighbor goes two directions you know.
If the thought, "I wonder if the crazy lady is okay?" didn't go through their heads, they're either dim wits, or more likely, just don't give a shit.
House has great corpse appeal.
Location, location, location!
I was in Cape Coral last year looking at property. Massive failed development, one or two houses in each block, the occasional half completed house. Roads already crumbling.
Fool overpaid.
That's the extra free bundle when you buy a house in debt driven economy. People should check the boot when they buy foreclosed cars.
They run ads around here.
http://www.diedinhouse.com/
All this is a shame and proof that the mess we constructed was built to linger. This was a post that I wrote several years ago; it still holds true today but in many ways it is far worse, yes it is still lingering! More on why this problem still haunts us in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/01/mess-that-is-built-to-linger.html
Killer deal.
Dead broke.
Ah, William Wilson.
"I had a hunch," Oben said. "Either it was a grow house or there was a dead lady in there."
why not both?
This is Amerika!
When was the phone disconnected? Maybe the bank locked her inside...
Gary Oben Jr is the biggest fucking douchebag prick asshole on the entire fucking planet. I hope that fucker dies alone.
"Next-door neighbor Gary Oben Jr., 30, said he used to park his van in the driveway"
Asshole.
" "I had a hunch," Oben said. "Either it was a grow house or there was a dead lady in there."
Prick.
HOLY SHIT
http://www.sheriffleefl.org/main/index.php?r=crimeActivity/inmateDetail&id=247109790451717
YOU WERE RIGHT
edit: I see somebody beat me to it...Savy crowd, here on ZH
That's a fine specimen of manhood
more like Honey Boo Boo fully grown.
We are so doomed.
Is the bird OK ??
Location, Location, Location!!!!
it's so good ... you won't leave
you win some , you lose some. that bitch could have been clutching some gold doubloons or something in her cold dead hands. Like one eyed willy.
Obama Caught Ordering Press to Cover Up Ebola
-1 for linking to a crap site like infowars
and i'd give another -1 if i could, for deceptive, misleading comments. what you stated does NOT match what the article says:
"Obama Caught Ordering Press to Cover Up Ebola" is not at all the same as "“The Associated Press and other press outlets have agreed not to report on suspect ed cases of Ebola in the United States until a positive viral RNA test is completed,”"
shame on you. you probably bash government officials and the press for dishonesty (which they are), but then you go and do it yourself. set a higher standard.
What if it isn't ebola but something ebola like. Will the press still report on it? Does it have to be Ebola or can it be any old killer virus to start reporting.
At what point will reporting a killer virus matter when they can just say it wasnt ebola. I would think you would want to know if you only have 2 weeks to live but maybe not.
Nothing Burgers can be hard to swallow after you've bought one.
This house is just like any other toxic asset on a balance sheet. Mark it to "market" (only if it goes up of course), then keep it on the books until there is no way on earth to hide something is wrong (without management knowing any details though), then try to find a stupid buyer that hopes to make a huge profit on it.
'Tales - from the Crypt'...
I guess the kids didn't care for Mom too much.
I guess mom didn't care for the kids too much.
A corpse? Was it a mortgage lender from 2006?
At least the one guy got some off street parking for a while.
All over the world old people are found dead. There was a case in Spain some years ago where the old lady passed away in the bath so the police were confronted by a very large soup in the bathtub.
Another case in Australia had a young couple on the ground floor complaining that something was dripping from the upstairs unit onto their bed. It was dripping alright. The only lady had died and her decomposing body had started to ooze through the floor boards.
This is not a story about America. It is a story of what happens when families die.
+1.
The family splits up into selfish one-person units, and no one gives a fuck about each other. Everyone dies a lonely death staring at screens and following instructions their whole life. The end.
And no, I'm not being pessimistic or negative. This is the world we live in.
but, we can continuously and everlastingly evolve it, right?
is the game not about birth, death, rebirth?
immortality - being saved?
your own personal jesus?
are we not living in the best of all possible worlds?
live each moment,
each moment,
each action,
each desire,
each thought,
to be worthy,
of living,
in the best of all possible worlds,
can you do it?
...
Peter, that's the most insightful comment I've read in awhile. Thanks.
All signs of disintegrating societies and bankrupt morals.
That's actually pretty cheap for a cardboard box...
This gives me an AWESOME idea. Break into a foreclosed house and put an entire pig carcass in the master bedroom.
Spungo, I'm not sure what kind of pig you're talking about, but real pork is too valuable to waste. The other, I might agree with you...
Perfect timing for Halloween.....just set her on the front stoop and give the kiddies candies...but it does show the lack of concern by the neighbors...when I grew up we knew all our neighbors and even fed the elderly ones....back in Iowa..where people are real people
Shame that this is how things are today when I was a kid we would be outside sun up to sun down and new just about every neighbors
Today seems most won't even look your way and never see kids outside playing
I live in a safe area and I don't let
My 9 year old daughter out of my sight
Through the magic of Al Gore's creation, here is detail on the dead lady's former neighbor, Mr. Oben, quoted in the article:
http://www.sheriffleefl.org/main/index.php?r=crimeActivity/inmateDetail&...
Here is detail on the home purchased by Mr. Wilson:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1130-SE-19th-Ln-Cape-Coral-FL-33990/45...
Wow, Well done!! A booking photo of the douchebag, man you've been busy!
+1
Cape Coral Real Estate Association spokesman, Terd Nurdlinger, released a statement today. "We would like to allay fears and clear up some confusion. The body that was discovered in the foreclosed home was the blonde winner of a 2010 game of Hide and Seek."
"Man Buys Foreclosed Home, Finds Corpse Inside"
The previous owner was dying to stay there ;-
Maybe I should change my handle?
Come to Australia.....that same home would be $500,000 plus a dead body.
The bank probably killed the owner, who put the locks and chains on the door?
Think about it...
The house had bars on all the windows right?
The house had locks and chains on the door right?
Maybe the guy was inside packing his shit about to move when the bank locked him inside and he died in there, maybe he was diabetic and couldn't get to his medicine and died hours after being locked inside the house...?
In anycase even if the bank set the house on fire while he was in there, no one would go to jail and the bank would continue operating like nothing happened.
So even speculating about it is pointless given the current state of our justice system lol
Longest unarmed standoff in history
Well it already looks like a funeral home. Is there a zoning issue?
Where are the tickets for the uncut grass?
he could have harvested the organs if he was quicker
I'm sure Obummer can still use the brain - be an improvement
Something is wrong with this entire story on multiple levels...
When a foreclosure takes place they do not just chain the doors and put it up for sale.
In most instances a sheriff visits and serves foreclosure papers / eviction notices.
If there is no action the sheriff has the house gutted. According to the story, the corpse was found next to a bed.
Then you have the bank. Was there not even a check of the property?
Equally f*cked up is the fact that the neighbors did not care enough to call the police when the lady was not seen for a while.
Did the mail carrier or neghbors not notice the buildup of mail?
There is much more to story then a dead body in a foreclosed home.
Linda Green inspected the property.
She might be Linda Green.
Not necessarily - if there is a glut of properties that are basically knock-downs, I'll bet the banksters aren't bothering to deal with contents. The auction price seems to reflect "knock down" price. Or may they are but some of the hired inspector goons said they took care of it and didn't.
Only a few miles from me, haven't seen my neighbor for about three months, I'm going to go check, tomorrow.
No one noticed the smell of fermenting human flesh? JFC, I guess part of stupidity is loss of sense of smell.
+1 for that one Yen. Perhaps the stench of everything else going on overcame their senses?
Only a few miles from me, haven't seen my neighbor for about three months, I'm going to go check, tomorrow.
Don't banks pay property tax on homes they foreclose on? I sense the answer to this is really going to cheese me off.
You might get extra cheese with that
I'd make an offer on that house but I'm afraid of what the counter-offer would look like
and does it include the carpet roll?
Linda Green?
Just in , it wasn't a dead body after all but a sex toy. The poSleaze are going door to door having established the duration or life expectancy of the batteries and decomposing semen sample are looking for a white mail, 19-24, , slight limp , who may have been held captive for several years by a gay preacher who found meth.
This story is for reality tveeee , what happened next or you've been framed.
The guy could assemble the skeleton of wire and sell.
Appear on that show Pawn Historic Channel.
When the bald man asked the origin of the thing, he would say that he found at home.
hehe.
Check the neck, sounds like the work of Count Soros.
If you like your newly bought corpse, you can keep you corpse. Somethin' like that.
For the record among so many that we visit on Zerohedge, what a very sad and sick statement this story brings all of us!
Neighbors no longer inquiring about each other or even caring when they don't see lights come on, or a garage door open "next door" for monthsor years?... That's right! Let the banks and the government take care of finding out whether that individual is alive or dead just like the way they start our wars!...
None of my business!
I mind my own business and pay my taxes!... Even if it means losing my rights and freedoms based on deceptions my government serves up regularly that I don't even care enough to know are lie(s) or truth(s)!... So leave me the fuck alone!!!
And we wonder why we're so fucked up with no hope whatsoever of coming out of our self-indulgent oftentimes "medicated" delusional stupor?...
Armageddon here we come!!!!
Endeavor to persevere.......
Oh.....for a minute there I thought this post was about the White House.
Why do you think the windows were bared and had 4 deadbolts??? It was a "diverse" area.
I have lived in a "diverse" area down here in the past (thank god now I am in the middle of the great swamp!), and sorry about the lack of "Friendlyness" but when the family on the left speaks only Spanish and keeps odd hours, and the family on the right only speaks some bastardized French / Creole mix, and all you can do when you see them is give an awkward smile and hope their children don't decide to rob your house when you are gone, well then yes, we are not very friendly to each other down here in those kinds of hoods.
I'm suprised the HOA didn't start raising hell after 3 months of.non payment..
So, another dead banker discovered!
So what? Paint it, flip it.
As-Is Bitch!
/Pinkman
Why on earth would you buy a home and NOT have an inspection performed first?