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This reminds me of the woman in England – dead for 3 years and no one knew.
This fellow here in the region.
Different circumstances but just as disturbing.
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Reclusive Wayne man had been dead in his home for a year</span></span>
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Last updated: Friday January 27, 2012, 7:04 AM
BY MATTHEW MCGRATH AND LINH TAT
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
Donald Domsky was a fixture at the small diner in Wayne where patrons knew him as a trivia wiz, though they didn't know his last name. Neighbors often offered the septuagenarian lifts on his miles-long ambles through town, but he never accepted.
He lived alone in a small gray-blue ranch house with a rusted pickup in the driveway. Paint peeled from the window frames and gutters dangled from the roof. The lawn was leaf-covered and an old water heater sat abandoned near the driveway.
Always a bit unkempt, the house had fallen into serious disrepair over the course of a year. That's about how long it took for neighbors and police to learn that he was dead inside.
Through a series of small oversights and mistaken assumptions, it wasn't until last week that police found his body.
A patron of the Crossroads Eatery, where Domsky had been a regular, noticed he hadn't been around and assumed he'd been taken in by family when he failed to answer a knock on his door.
Mail piled up for some time at his 99 Black Oak Ridge Road home, but Postal Service officials could not explain Thursday why the unclaimed bundles didn't raise red flags.
<span style="color: #FF0000">The town mowed his lawn when neighbors complained, not realizing that Domsky was lying dead inside. An investor bought a lien on his house and kept up utility and tax payments, so the township never was troubled by unpaid bills.</span>
A neighbor, Frances Cook, noticed that for some time she hadn't seen him walk by in the morning while she waited for her daughter's school bus. "I didn't do anything at first, but then it started to bother me more."
She asked police on Jan. 20 to check on him.
Police judge from the dates of the most current mail and newspapers in the house that Domsky died in December 2010. He would have been 80 last August.
balance of story here:
This fellow here in the region.
Different circumstances but just as disturbing.
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<span style="font-size: 17pt">
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Reclusive Wayne man had been dead in his home for a year</span></span>
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Last updated: Friday January 27, 2012, 7:04 AM
BY MATTHEW MCGRATH AND LINH TAT
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
Donald Domsky was a fixture at the small diner in Wayne where patrons knew him as a trivia wiz, though they didn't know his last name. Neighbors often offered the septuagenarian lifts on his miles-long ambles through town, but he never accepted.
He lived alone in a small gray-blue ranch house with a rusted pickup in the driveway. Paint peeled from the window frames and gutters dangled from the roof. The lawn was leaf-covered and an old water heater sat abandoned near the driveway.
Always a bit unkempt, the house had fallen into serious disrepair over the course of a year. That's about how long it took for neighbors and police to learn that he was dead inside.
Through a series of small oversights and mistaken assumptions, it wasn't until last week that police found his body.
A patron of the Crossroads Eatery, where Domsky had been a regular, noticed he hadn't been around and assumed he'd been taken in by family when he failed to answer a knock on his door.
Mail piled up for some time at his 99 Black Oak Ridge Road home, but Postal Service officials could not explain Thursday why the unclaimed bundles didn't raise red flags.
<span style="color: #FF0000">The town mowed his lawn when neighbors complained, not realizing that Domsky was lying dead inside. An investor bought a lien on his house and kept up utility and tax payments, so the township never was troubled by unpaid bills.</span>
A neighbor, Frances Cook, noticed that for some time she hadn't seen him walk by in the morning while she waited for her daughter's school bus. "I didn't do anything at first, but then it started to bother me more."
She asked police on Jan. 20 to check on him.
Police judge from the dates of the most current mail and newspapers in the house that Domsky died in December 2010. He would have been 80 last August.
balance of story here:
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