Body found in bed 5 years after death
 

Body found in bed 5 years after death
Wed Oct 4, 2006 8:59 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian authorities have discovered the body of a man who apparently died at home in bed five years ago, a Vienna newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The corpse of Franz Riedl, thought to have been in his late 80s when he died, went undetected for so long because his rent had been paid by automatic order from the bank account into which he received his pension, the daily Kurier said.

Neighbors said there was no strange smell coming from Riedl's apartment and authorities who found the body after a court order was given to enter said his body appeared to have "mummified" and was well preserved.

"He had been frail and a woman had helped him," the husband of the apartment block's caretaker told Kurier, adding that mail had always piled up outside the pensioner's flat. "We thought he had moved in with her or gone to an old people's home."

Police said they were not certain as to exactly when the man had died, but that they had found only schilling notes in the apartment -- the currency used by Austria before the introduction of the euro on January 1, 2002.

mummified? he had almost no blood then...

yep but paid his bills on time lol

that's fucking nutz.... if that were in america surely someone would get sued... i dont know who, but in the USA, we always find someone to take the rap!

Why would someone get sued for an old man being dead?

That's what you get for paying your bills, no one gives a fuck if you're alive or not.

"dead man don't pay no bills" yeah right!

It sucks to be alone.... :(

Just like in the movie SEVEN! Remember that? Oh... creepy!

i love longtime rebilling members, who are too dead to cancel their account :-)

thats kinda creepy..:Oh crap

the stuff nightmares are made from

:party-smi scary

I see ghost..........

I mean...... I see dead people.................

:Oh crap

holy crap, thats nutz

That's pretty bad...imagine how lonely he must have been before he died.

Sad thing is it must happen alot

Being alone aint a bad thing.

Yea i thought about that movie as well, creepy, but that guy in SEVEN got too much drugs along the way

Thats fucked up

How could be mummiefied? may be someone killed him and made soem injection that prevented th body from decomposition? and recieved his pension all the time :)

that's creepy

thats just weird...

White people pay their bills even after they're dead.

Everybody dies alone.

it is sad that he did not have anyone to ask about him, holidays and so on he never shared them with anyone :(

Vampires.

:2 cents:

i want his rebills!

that's pretty sick

hm there is something fishy in the story