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Title: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: bijou on November 08, 2008, 08:38:53 AM
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Evanston police are investigating why a 90-year-old woman was apparently living in a home with three dead siblings—one of which is believed to have died in the early 1980s.

How and when the siblings died and their ages were still being determined Friday, said Evanston police Cmdr. Tom Guenther. The bodies were found Friday morning in a large home on the 1200 block of Judson Avenue, he said.

“We know we have three deceased people,” Guenther said. “We don’t know how their deaths occurred.”

Anita Bernstorff, born in 1910, Frank Bernstorff, born in 1920 and Elaine Bernstorff, born in 1916 were all pronounced dead in the home Friday afternoon, a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. Their exact ages could not be determined because it was not clear how long they were dead in the home.

Anita Bernstorff was last seen alive in May of 2008, Frank Bernstorff was last seen alive in April of 2003 and Elaine Bernstorff was last seen alive in the early 1980s, authorities said.

The Bernstorff’s are believed to have died from natural causes, but autopsies are scheduled for Saturday. At least two of the bodies were skeletons and the third was very badly decomposed, according to authorities.

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link (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1267657,evanston-woman-living-with-three-dead-110708.article)

Sounds like she was overwhelmed. Shame there were no family or friends able to help her.
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Lord Undies on November 08, 2008, 09:08:56 AM
Stories like this intrigue me.  How does one autopsy a skeleton, I wonder?
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Chris_ on November 08, 2008, 09:21:23 AM
Stories like this intrigue me.  How does one autopsy a skeleton, I wonder?

Don't you ever watch Bones?  That is all the lead does.
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: djones520 on November 08, 2008, 09:33:14 AM
Did all three die at once?  I'd say chances where no, so why did the others not want to properly handle the remains as well?
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Chris_ on November 08, 2008, 09:34:52 AM
Why does the final scene from "Happy Birthday to Me" come to mind?
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Lord Undies on November 08, 2008, 09:40:11 AM
Don't you ever watch Bones?  That is all the lead does.


I've seen "Bones" (it irritated me).  Looking at a bag-O-bones shouldn't be called an autopsy.  It is more like archeology.   
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: DixieBelle on November 08, 2008, 09:56:54 AM
^anthropology (forensic) to be exact. Forensic pathology would be for remains that still have tissue.

Yeah, I can't figure this one out. If they didn't all die at the same time, why didn't anyone call for help? There must be some mental illness there.
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Lord Undies on November 08, 2008, 10:18:29 AM
^anthropology (forensic) to be exact. Forensic pathology would be for remains that still have tissue.


Well, excuuuuuuuse the hockey puck outta me.

 :innocent:
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: NHSparky on November 08, 2008, 10:27:36 AM
Scamming Social Security, or just a condition similar to not wanting to let go; i.e., crazy old cat ladies?
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: miskie on November 08, 2008, 05:07:25 PM
Scamming Social Security, or just a condition similar to not wanting to let go; i.e., crazy old cat ladies?

I must think the worst of people - the first thing that crossed my mind was collecting the monthly checks.
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Chris_ on November 08, 2008, 05:32:22 PM
Well, excuuuuuuuse the hockey puck outta me.

 :innocent:

Just in case, you should check to see if those corpses in the chairs in your basement have skin.  Having the right specialist is important.

(http://www.legendsofhorror.org/images/bates/ppic6.jpg)
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Lord Undies on November 08, 2008, 05:36:59 PM
Just in case, you should check to see if those corpses in the chairs in your basement have skin.  Having the right specialist is important.

(http://www.legendsofhorror.org/images/bates/ppic6.jpg)


"Nahmon!  Nahmon!  Put my down!  You are not taking me to the fruit cellar!  Put me down! Think I'm fruity, eh?"
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: Ptarmigan on November 08, 2008, 05:57:34 PM
House if the dead. How ghoulish!
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: LogiQ on November 09, 2008, 02:45:11 AM
Scamming Social Security, or just a condition similar to not wanting to let go; i.e., crazy old cat ladies?

  Probably another storage facility for future Obama votes!! ::)
Title: Re: Home full of corpses. Why did Evanston woman, 90, live with dead siblings?
Post by: DixieBelle on November 09, 2008, 09:49:35 AM
Well, excuuuuuuuse the hockey puck outta me.

 :innocent:

LOL! You know I love you more than my dishwasher.  :innocent: