What happened to suburban Lake Worth couple in Condo #1223?

[RockaFowler]

http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/what-happened-to-suburban-lake-worth-couple-in-con/nYDXD/?icmp=pbp_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_pbpstubtomypbp_launch#modal-3509289

This is one of the saddest stories I've read in awhile. Here in Florida we have many of these retirement villages. And many of them have people like June and Bernie Sperling. I have a couple like this in my family. It's time as a society that we start to care again for one another. Bernie may have wanted to be left alone, but June's friends should have almost demanded to see her. Especially after she was taken to the hospital twice in a month.

[mike_c]

1. wow, how sad....

[mia]

2. Highly recommend that everyone read this.

Very sad.

[enlightenment]

3. Interesting article.

Seems like most of it is designed to make the neighbors and friends (and family) feel better about their lack of interest in the couple.

I can understand why they drew away - to a degree - but the bit toward the end is bothersome.

Should they have investigated what seemed like just another odd noise from #1223?

There is nothing in the article to suggest that there were other odd noises that regularly came from the condo - so this kind of tapping should have caused curiosity, at the very least.

[RockaFowler]

4. That's the part that breaks my heart most of all

This poor woman was crying out for help and no-one wanted to hear her. It's so devastating that they could be so cutoff from the rest of the world that her own friends wouldn't even bother to see if anything was wrong.