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Petaluma daughter lives with mother's corpse for more than a year: police
PETALUMA, Calif. - A welfare check at a home in Petaluma revealed a woman who had been dead in her home for over a year, with her daughter living in the same house with her mother's corpse the entire time, police said.Officers were called to the 200 block of Windsor Drive about 11 a.m. on Tuesday and saw piles of 20 to 30 packages stacked up on the porch, which KTVU also observed upon visiting the home. No one answered the door when the officers rang, and having heard concerns from the reporting party, officers decided to enter the house.Once inside, police saw the dead woman on a couch in the living room. "The conditions inside the home were unlivable in that it was filled with clutter, trash and boxes from floor to ceiling.