Body hanging from tree mistaken for Halloween decoration
 

FREDERICA, Delaware (AP) -- 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.



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this is sure to become an urban legend

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.ya...eth/ghosts.jpg

Yep. Give it 15-20 years.

No pics? that sucks

that's freaky shit

sure it will end up somewhere - thank god it wasnt in the mexican hood.. they would have treated her like a pinata looking for candy

http://www.usm.maine.edu/eeo/culture...ta%202_jpg.jpg

makes you wonder why she did it in such a public way?

main road - probably heaps of kids doing the halloween thing...

thats the freaky part - she didnt care that kids were going to see her rotting corpse. She wanted to make a statement, but when your in that mindset, childrens opinions dont matter

Jesus. That's actually creepy.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

That's sick.

What a story....but I don't know if I would have acted any different.

Matt

what in hanging yourself or thinking it was a decoration

She finally got all the attention she was crying out for. Ironic, isn't it?

Nooooo...not hanging myself, but in thinking it was a decoration. I have some some pretty realistic looking decorations. My neighbors have gone nuts this year decorating.

Matt

Yikes... what happened to people just running a hot bath and slitting their wrists?

This reminds me of an old urban legend (though snopes says it's true) about the body of an outlaw that hung inside a carnival haunted house for years. No one knew it was a real body until a TV crew (filming Six Million Dollar Man, no less) tried to move it for filming and noticed that it was no prop.

http://www.halloweenghoststories.com...trange1-1.html

Cyn