Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration
Posted: November 1, 2005 3:37 pm
SHEESH!!! Can you imagine???
How did she get 15 feet up in the tree and in the no doubt in the dark?
Must have been really determined and trying to earn some fame perhaps?
This may have lingering effercts on some areas... no more hanging effigies /what have you, from trees for decorations.
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Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration
Woman’s body hangs from tree after apparent suicide
Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2005
FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.
The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.
The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.
“They thought it was a Halloween decoration,” Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
“It looked like something somebody would have rigged up,” she said.
How did she get 15 feet up in the tree and in the no doubt in the dark?
Must have been really determined and trying to earn some fame perhaps?
This may have lingering effercts on some areas... no more hanging effigies /what have you, from trees for decorations.
*************************************************************
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9841877/
Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration
Woman’s body hangs from tree after apparent suicide
Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2005
FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.
The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.
The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.
“They thought it was a Halloween decoration,” Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
“It looked like something somebody would have rigged up,” she said.
