Son Returns Home To Make Peace With Father - Finds His Bones In Bed

[matcom]

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Estranged from his father, a gay Brooklyn man came home yesterday to make peace, only to make a horrifying discovery: His mother had been hiding his dad's corpse in the family's apartment for three years, police sources said.

Joanne Iversen, 73, told her son and cops that she never reported her husband's death because she wanted to continue collecting his Social Security benefits, the sources said.

Her horrific secret was exposed when her 38-year-old son, Paul Iversen, knocked on the apartment door early yesterday. He had not been home since he came out of the closet well before his dad's death, the sources said.

"I want to see Dad," Paul Iversen told his mom, the sources said. "I want to make everything right."

The elderly woman - who almost never allowed anyone into her Bay Ridge apartment - opened the door, sources said. "He's in the bedroom," she told her son.

Paul Iversen walked through the filthy apartment and to his horror found the skeletal remains of his dad, Frank Iversen, 75, in a fetal position under a pile of bed covers and clothes, the sources said.

Sickened by the discovery, he persuaded his mom to go to the cops just after 8 a.m.

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[wildhorses]

1. OMG this is horrifying and sad on so many different levels

holy shit...

[livetohike]

2. This is just so sad

:-(. Just as wildhorses wrote - it is sad on so many levels.

[Hobarticus]

3. What our "culture of life" forces people to do, to survive

She probably needed that money desperately.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Thanks, Pro-Life Republicans! You people fucking rock!!

Exciting Pro-Life stuff like this would never happen if the Republicans weren't helping to ensure it. God knows the mealy-mouthed flip-flopping tree-hugging liberals would have never let this happen because they would have made sure - and how unchristian is this? - that the woman wouldn't have to fear starving to death if she lost her husband's social security. What kind of society would that be, in which old people don't live in fear of losing their homes or of having to eat cat food? Well, it would be a Christ-hating society in which ALL people have an equal chance, and that's just fucking unchristian.

[Hugin]

5. Dang, I wonder why the other son was estranged?

Didn't seem to get along with anyone.

Tragic.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. I think we read this short story in high school.

It was called, "A Rose For Emily".

[ulysses]

7. fucking hell.

What would it do to a person to share an apartment with a corpse for three years? Oy.