Argentine man sealed his deceased mother in a plastic bag and lived with her for 10 years
According to the Xinhua News Agency, Argentina's "Clarin" reported on the 9th, a 58-year-old Argentine man was found dead in his home in Buenos Aires on the 8th, along with his mother who died 10 years ago. The police believe that the man may have been living with his mother's body for 10 years.
Police sources said that the incident happened in the Vicente Lopez district of Buenos Aires, according to the residents of the community where the dead man lived, the past 20 days often smelled a bad smell, police received a report to the scene and followed the smell to find the man's residence.
According to the police handling the case told the media that the house was locked from the inside, the police had to break down the door with the help of fire personnel, and the scene seen in the kitchen next "may only be in a horror movie" : An elderly woman, apparently long dead and sealed in a plastic pocket, sat at the kitchen table, her body air-dried, opposite her recently deceased son.
According to forensic experts at the scene, the body of the deceased man was in an advanced state of decomposition, the time of death should have been 30 days ago, and the mother should have died 8 to 10 years ago, probably because the body was treated and decomposed less than the man. The names of the two men and the identities of the mother and son have been confirmed.
Neighbors said that the man was a garbage collector who suffered from mental illness. He never mentioned his mother's death, and when neighbors asked him, he just said that she was "fine, at home." According to the investigation at the scene, the police preliminarily speculated that both died of natural causes, and estimated that the man had been living with his mother's body after her death.