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http://www.azcentral.com

Man may have been dead 4 years in apartment

Associated Press
Oct. 3, 2006 10:45 AM


VIENNA, Austria - A landlord in Austria wasn't getting any answers to his letters to a tenant, announcing a rent increase.

So, he unlocked the apartment and went inside -- and found that the tenant had been dead for quite a while.

Police believe the man may have died three or four years ago. But his rent continued to be paid automatically from his bank account, which was automatically replenished by payments from his pension fund. advertisement




They found the mummified body in a bed. Elsewhere in the apartment, police found old Austrian schilling banknotes. Austria switched to the Euro on January first, 2002.

The 93-year-old man was a former university professor who's described as something of a recluse. Neighbors apparently didn't think it was unusual to see junk mail piling up outside his door.

Geez... how is that possible?

Neighbors apparently didn't think it was unusual to see junk mail piling up outside his door.

For FOUR years???

Apparently, Austrians "mind their own business" to excess...remember that girl held in a basement cell for 10 years?

They had to have smelled the corpse when he first died. How did they stand it. We once had a opossum die inside the insulation under our mobile home and it was impossible to get to it. Believe me the smell lasted for at least two months and wasn't pleasant and it was small. I can't believe they ignored the problem. Maybe he had the AC turned up high.

Did he own the apartment? The Landlord let him stay there for 4 years? This is one that will go in the books as far as bizarre!