http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/uncanny-coincidences-let-mans-death-go-unnoticed-for-years-qs422uf-138727284.html

2/7/2012 10:02:31 PM

That must have been a boring guy.

2/7/2012 10:04:02 PM

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"It's a visit no one would welcome. But it solved the mystery of Carter's whereabouts. The workers found his "nearly skeletonized body," in the words of the medical examiner's investigative report."

2/7/2012 10:04:44 PM

GOAR PILE

2/7/2012 10:05:44 PM

Was his body in a vacant home? Cuz that would make sense.

2/7/2012 10:07:19 PM

Partlow definitely had a hand in this

2/7/2012 10:10:21 PM

He did one of ours. So he had to fall.

2/7/2012 10:15:14 PM

that is so fucking sad

2/7/2012 10:20:29 PM

It's all in the game yo!

2/7/2012 11:27:25 PM

just like that movie dreams of a life

2/7/2012 11:52:18 PM

You earned that bill like a muhfucka.

2/8/2012 2:18:48 AM

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"The best estimate is that his suicide happened in late 2007. That's when he quit his job. That's when he wrote his last check. That's when he talked of moving away. And that's when he disappeared, not quite in plain sight but right there in his longtime home. His body was not discovered until January. I don't mean 2008 or 2009 or 2010 or 2011. He was found last month. This year."

2/8/2012 8:43:16 AM

That's so sad.

2/8/2012 8:49:35 AM

That's a really sad story. If only the city had foreclosed on his house sooner lol.

2/8/2012 8:55:58 AM

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"often drove past "

2/8/2012 8:57:31 AM

wow

RIP, forgotten dude.

2/8/2012 9:01:43 AM

the saddest part of the whole story... whose going to pay those Mexicans for cutting his lawn for 4 years?

2/8/2012 9:06:45 AM

I saw another one once where the guy was mummified. It was an old man that died in his chair. He had all his bills on auto draft and social security on direct deposit. His TV was still on when they found him sitting in the chair, facing it, YEARS LATER.

2/8/2012 9:20:09 AM

^ I've heard stories like that too. I think the saddest part about those stories is that nobody cared about that person enough to go over and see if he was okay once he went MIA.

2/8/2012 9:23:07 AM

^^^more proof that azns are not funny.

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2/8/2012 9:23:58 AM

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"Vincenzo 'Vinnie' Ricardo was the proverbial tree that fell in the forest: No one knew. From what police in Hampton Bays, N.Y., can determine, the 70-year-old was sitting alone watching TV in his two-story home when he died. That was more than a year ago, and when workers were summoned to his house last week after a report that freezing temperatures had caused the home's pipes to burst, they found Ricardo's mummified body still sitting on the couch, the TV still on. A neighbor of Ricardo's, Deanna Devon, was shocked that no one discovered him sooner. "He was blind and he used to wander into the street. I used to worry he would get hit," she told FOXNews.com. Vinnie was often seen walking in the streets with his cane, Devon said. Ricardo had been stricken blind in his 50s and suffered from diabetes. He apparently died of natural causes, according to Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County deputy chief medical examiner. Due to the dry air in his house, Ricardo's body was well-preserved, leaving his features and hair intact. "You could see his face. He still had hair on his head," morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus told Newsday. "I've been on the job 35 years, and I've never seen anyone dead that long." "Vinnie had people who came to help take care of him, so I don’t understand this," Devon said. Hampton Bays is a small hamlet of 12,200 people on the eastern end of Long Island. Town detectives handling the case did not return phone calls Saturday. Ricardo was widowed years ago and had lived alone since then, Newsday reported. The house was set in the woods far back from the road, according to neighbors, which made it difficult to observe Ricardo's actions. "He hasn't been heard from in over a year. That's the part that baffles me," Dawson said. "Nobody sounded the alarm." "We heard he had family somewhere nearby, but he was estranged from them," Devon added. Neighbor April Cowden told the paper that she used to help Ricardo by reading his mail to him, paying his bills and buying his groceries. But in the summer of 2005, he began to demand more of her time, and when she couldn't comply, they had a falling out. "I needed to go to work [one day] and he wanted me to stay," Cowden, 37, told Newsday. About a month later, Cowden said, she saw an ambulance at his house. Later, when she saw the mail begin to pile up, Cowden thought he was in the hospital. Authorities are at a loss as to how the electricity remained on in Ricardo's home all this time. Attempts to reach the Long Island Power Authority were unsuccessful Saturday. "Something just seems really strange about all this. There are so many little things that don't make sense," Devon said. "I didn’t really know him very well, but apparently nobody did." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252591,00.html#ixzz1lnl1gS6C "

2/8/2012 9:42:20 AM

Not dying alone is probably the main reason I see myself eventually getting married. Otherwise, I doubt I'd bother.

2/8/2012 9:47:15 AM

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"Authorities are at a loss as to how the electricity remained on in Ricardo's home all this time."

I bet a human being at the power company knew that a blind old man lived in that house by himself and cut him a few years of slack.

2/8/2012 9:49:21 AM

It was auto-draft. I read in another article all his utilities were auto draft.

Had the pipe not burst no one would have ever found him.

2/8/2012 9:50:11 AM

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"they found Ricardo's mummified body still sitting on the couch, the TV still on."

I think the real question is who snuck in and mummified him

2/8/2012 9:55:49 AM

this shit don't happen in Florida

stink gives em away

2/8/2012 9:59:36 AM

^ Also the flies

I found a dead deer way in my backyard once this summer. Went back to check on it a week later and it was literally a skeleton with a couple pieces of fur left, and there were tens of thousands of wriggling maggots on the ground nearby.

2/8/2012 10:14:18 AM

I think the real question is why was a blind man watching tv?

2/8/2012 11:18:46 AM

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2/8/2012 11:28:02 AM

^^ Ahahah

2/8/2012 11:33:06 AM

Because television also transmits sound, and most television programming isn't available over primarily auditory media like radio or podcast? Jesus Christ.

2/8/2012 11:34:03 AM

^frosh'd

2/8/2012 11:36:55 AM

Realize, BB, that this will one day be you

2/8/2012 11:37:22 AM

ya

2/8/2012 11:37:51 AM

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"Not dying alone is probably the main reason I see myself eventually getting married. Otherwise, I doubt I'd bother."

She could die first.

2/8/2012 11:50:20 AM

JACKLEG

2/8/2012 11:51:52 AM

^^ That's why you have to keep a backup spouse on standby.

2/8/2012 11:53:40 AM

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"I think the real question is why was a blind man watching tv?"

A person can be legally blind and still see blurred shapes, etc. I had a clients father show me one time this reading machine he had that made one line of text the size of a computer screen, it had a sliding stand that you could place a book on and slide it back and forth and read from the huge screen.

2/8/2012 12:06:17 PM