Brooklyn Mother Lived with Son’s Decomposed Corpse for Nearly a Decade

According to the New York City Police Department, the skeletal remains of Brooklyn man were found in his bedroom where they may have been laying for as many as eight years… while his mother continued to live in the house!

The man, who has not yet been identified, probably died in 2008 at age 43, according to authorities. His skeletal remains were discovered Thursday, after his 80-year-old mother was hospitalized. A female relative, police said, was retrieving belongings for the woman when she made the gruesome find.

“She went to the second floor bedroom and that’s when she noticed a dead body ― completely decomposed skeletal remains ― on the floor,” a spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told The Huffington Post on Monday.

The man, who was last seen alive in 2008, and had reportedly been terminally ill, was previously employed as a driver for a Brooklyn car service.

Nobody knows why his mother, who is also not being identified, didn’t notify authorities of her son’s death.

(Or why nobody he was dead, for that matter)

Via HuffPo:

A neighbor described the woman as a loner who ignored their greetings.

“She never said hello,” the neighbor told New York Daily News. “She always walking down the street with a grocery bag [and] she would walk looking down. Something about her always seemed a little weird.”

The neighbor also said a tan Ford Explorer, possibly belonging the dead man, is parked in the driveway of the woman’s home and has not been moved in several years. Google Earth appears to show the vehicle has remained in the same spot since at least October 2007.

Authorities on Monday told HuffPost they are still awaiting the results of the dead man’s autopsy. Until then, it remains unclear whether his mother will face criminal charges.