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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Missing Woman Found Dead Behind Bookcase
2006-11-26
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - A woman's body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her.
"hmmmmmm does it always smell like that in here?"
A spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Mariesa Weber's death was not suspicious. Family members said they believe she fell over as she tried to adjust the plug of a television behind the bookshelf.
did the TV work? Nobody notice? Who are these people?
Weber, 38, returned home Oct. 28 and greeted her mother, then wasn't seen again. Her family thought she had been kidnapped and contacted authorities. Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, though they did notice a strange smell.
hokay..... stranger than usual?
On Nov. 9, Weber's sister went into her bedroom and looked behind a bookcase, where she saw the woman's foot. Using a flashlight the family saw Weber was wedged upside-down behind the unit.
"hey! Is that you Mariesa?"
"I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her," her mother, Connie Weber, told the St. Petersburg Times. "And she's right in the bedroom."
"I feel so much better"
Both Weber and her sister had previously adjusted the television plug by standing on a bureau next to the shelf and leaning over the top. Her family believes Weber, who was 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, may have fallen headfirst into the space. "She's a little thing," her mother said. "And the bookcase is 6 feet tall and solid. And she couldn't get out."
"she's smaller now. If she were still alive, she could probably get out. I kept hearing her say: 'hey assholes, I'm stuck here' but we thought it was a message from beyond....so we never looked, even when we heard her kicks"
The sheriff's office said Weber appeared to have died because she was unable to breathe in the position she was in.
bet that went quick...
Posted by:Frank G

#11  I know this is a stupid question, but why didn't they just turn the TV off when they finished viewing ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-11-26 18:11  

#10  Damn, and I thought I was a bad housekeeper.
I have dust-harveys* like you wouldn't believe, cat-boxes overflowing, and a small dog with an indifferent grasp of the concept of house-breaking... but I think--- I hope!! I would notice a dead body, way before two weeks were up!

* a six-foot tall dust-bunny
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-11-26 18:06  

#9  I'd be grilling the Webers.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-11-26 15:59  

#8  Prob'ly didn't like her that much.
Posted by: Fred   2006-11-26 13:06  

#7  Family didn't look very hard if you ask me.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-11-26 12:34  

#6  Did they use a Geiger counter?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-11-26 10:43  

#5  I have a friend in Kentucky who buys wood from a local known as Dirty Dick.  The story goes that one day Dick's cat went missing.  The children later discovered the dessicated corpse wedged between their mattress and the wall.  "Oh, there's Fluffy."
Posted by: KBK   2006-11-26 09:47  

#4  Well, she could have screamed for help, but she'd have still been in New Port Richey.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-11-26 07:16  

#3  Televisions, why do they hate us?
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-11-26 04:33  

#2  Season Premire Tonight on Murder she Bloat

A DEED THAT STANK OF TREACHERY




Posted by: Angela LetsBuryEm   2006-11-26 01:03  

#1  
"She's a little thing,"
Evidently, so were her disappearance and death.
 
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-26 00:19  

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