Blind hoarder 'unaware' son was dead in house for 20 years

A Brooklyn woman left her house so messy that she didn't realize her son was dead in the home for 20 years.

The discovery was made on September 15, after a relative of Rita Wolfensohn's went to her home to retrieve belongings and take them to her in the hospital, the New York Post reports.

Sister-in-law Josette Buchman stumbled upon a fully intact skeleton, dressed in jeans, socks and a shirt, lying on its back on a mattress on the floor.

The room where the remains were found had an overbearing stench of rotting food, but not of decaying flesh, the source said.

NYPD said Wolfensohn was probably unaware that he was there. When they interviewed her, she said that he had moved out years ago.

Ms. Wolfensohn’s son, Louis, disappeared roughly 20 years ago and would be 49 years old today.

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