Call it "Psycho" meets "Dirty Jobs."
When 17th District Court officers went to Annie Marquis' trailer home to evict her for unpaid rent, a sharp smell was the first sign that it wasn't a routine day. Corey Williams of the Associated Press sets the grisly scene in a dispatch posted at WXYZ's site:
"The officer noted a pungent smell of decay and observed a corpse in the room immediately to the right of the front door," Redford Township police Sgt. Kevin Crittenden said Friday. "He called us. The corpse had obviously been deceased for some time and was partially dried out."
Police arrested Dennis McCauley, 64, who they say had lived for about six months with the 72-year-old's decomposing corpse on a sofa at Long's Mobile Home Court. She apparently died naturally, investiagtors say.
McCauley, unable to post a $250,000 bond, is in the county jail after being arraigned on charges of failing to report a death, mutilating a corpse and counts related to allegedly cashing Marquis' monthly Social Security checks since last fall, Williams reports.
The police sergeant explains the mutilation charge, another horror movie-like twist:
"When we found the body, the upper arm was separated from the right shoulder."
