Husband of hoarder finds missing wife's body buried under rubbish four months later

[Praxius]

Here's something for those who can't get enough of those Hoarder shows:

Authorities assumed hoarder Billie Jean James had got lost in the desert / AP

Husband of hoarder finds missing wife's body buried under rubbish four months later | News.com.au

A HUSBAND discovered the body of his wife who had been missing for four months buried under tonnes of rubbish in their home.

The body of Billie Jean James, 67, was found by her husband, Bill James, last Wednesday in their Las Vegas home.

She had been missing since April 22, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The Las Vegas Police Department said they had searched the couple's home at least three times with search dogs, but never picked up the body's scent.

"Dogs did search the entire house," officer Bill Cassell said.

"This house was so full of possessions that movement inside of the house was restricted and in some cases very difficult. Visual searching was impossible."

It was only when Bill James cleared at least 4.5 tonnes of rubbish from one of the tiny rooms in their house that he made the shocking discovery.

He said it was unsure if it was his wife when he spotted a pair of shoes sticking out from under the clutter.

The Clark County coroner's office confirmed that the body was that of Billie Jean James but said it could take weeks before a cause of death was established.

Bill James told KTNV Friday he wanted his wife to be remembered as a friendly, outgoing woman rather than a compulsive hoarder.

"Yes there was clutter in the house and yes we found Billie underneath some stuff. But what people are saying ... It's just trying to inflame things and it's very disrespectful to her," he said...........​

"Clutter?"

"Some Stuff??"

Sorry but 4.5 Tonnes of crap in one room alone isn't just Clutter and Some Stuff. (and that was at the point of finding the body, nothing about the room being completely cleared out at that time, thus more then 4.5 Tonnes)

But hey, if he want's to remain delusional about their problems...... :thumbup:

........ Police initially focused their search for Billie Jean James on the surrounding desert, fearing she may have been temporarily disoriented from a mini-stroke she suffered five months earlier.

But Mr Cassell said there were multiple searches of the couple's home as well.

He said "ambient odors in the house" from garbage bags full of rotting food, stacks and piles of clothing as well as animal odors may have restricted airflow to the dogs' noses.

Friends said Billie Jean James was a compulsive hoarder, keen on thrift store trinkets and clothes, and described the back room where she was found as "her rabbit hole."

The couple had built a second home on their property to hold all their belongings.

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Perhaps the husband just decided to hoard her body to add it to the collection..... apparently they couldn't throw anything away, maybe he couldn't throw her away.

OOOooooo.... too harsh I suppose.... here come the bad/negative reps for my in-sensitiveness.

Oh and this caught my eye:

"Dogs did search the entire house," officer Bill Cassell said.

"This house was so full of possessions that movement inside of the house was restricted and in some cases very difficult. Visual searching was impossible."

So obviously an "Entire" search didn't happen, or else they would have found the body earlier wouldn't they?

 

[Chiliagon]

well, just goes to show that keeping everything you have owned or used can be dangerous to your health!!

 

[Ron in Regina]

In Vegas....dead for months...house searched three times with dogs...trippy.

 

[Chiliagon]

dogs must have been smokin something before they did their work!

up too late with the bitches?

haha

she's probably up there now thinking "jee, maybe I should have gotten rid of some of that stuff after all??"

 

[lone wolf]

Killed by a junkslide? I wonder what smelled strong enough to hide her scent.


...then again, I don't wanna know.

Mental note to self: Get rid of ex g/f's stuff....

 

[Praxius]

A lot of those shows on like Hoarders and Burried Alive show many types of these people with various types of "Hoarding Mental Illnesses" or whatever..... there was one old woman I saw who had a pile of cats and while they were digging out half the crap out of her house, they shoveled up multiple flattened out cat skeletons, some still with fur and skin on the bone, which have been there for years..... and they also came across an area where they found a skeletal remains of a new born litter..... which of course weren't so new born now.

Having garbage bags with rotten food, piles of dirty laundry, dead animals, feces and urine all over the place..... piss buckets and sh*t cans because you can't reach the bathroom anymore, or simply can't be bothered so you just strap on diapers, crap/piss in them and then toss them in a pile...... I don't question the police dog's abilities to not find her...... I question how the dogs and anybody else nearby didn't die from the stank.

^ This is a typical appearance of a Hoarder's room and just one of many rooms that are similar..... quite mild I might add, compared to some of the ones I saw in the past.

Personally speaking, I don't just blame the hoarders for this sort of crap, I also blame family and friends who just let them continue to do it as if it's perfectly normal....... Go in one day and take everything out of the place with a tractor, regardless of what they say..... toss it all in the garbage...... if they go nuts, then lock them in a loony bin..... if they start piling it up again...... lock them in the loony bin...... either that or given them a good smack up side the head and a good shake.

Either way, they can't hoard in a mental institution.

 

[shadowshiv]

In some of those cases, the authorities have to wear Hazmat suits to combat the horrible stink and potential for disease.