Woman sleeps with corpse
2008-01-09 18:24
Vienna - A 67-year-old Austrian woman slept in a bed with the mummified corpse of her 85-year-old companion for 10 months because she didn't want people to know that he had died, police said on Wednesday.
Police officers in the tiny village of Sankt-Andrae-am-Zicksee in eastern Austria found the decomposed, partially mummified corpse in the couple's bed after the man's doctor became concerned at the prolonged absence of his patient, police said in a statement.
The woman had claimed that her companion was in Germany, but after repeated failed attempts to reach him on the contact number she gave for him, police decided to search the house.
An autopsy found that the man had probably died of natural causes in March last year, police said.
- AFP