North Carolina woman lived with mom's decomposing body for months to 'see stages of death'
FOX NEWS - A North Carolina woman was arrested Tuesday after authorities found she had been living for months with her 93-year-old mother’s decomposing body because she was “curious” about the stages of death, according to reports.
Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, of Enfield, reported her mother’s death to a funeral home, but said she didn’t know where first responders had taken the body, Raleigh’s News & Observer reported. But when the funeral home couldn’t find the body of Nellie May Hudgins either, they called police.
Police Chief Tyree Davis wrote on Facebook that officers went to Hudgins’ home to conduct a welfare check and found Nellie May’s “badly decomposed body.”
An investigation revealed the body had been in the home for several months before Hudgins’ told family members about their mother’s death, Davis wrote.