Autopsy shows Margareta Scheibe died of a heart attack
(http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Worth-Womans-Body-Found-Buried-in-Trash-139350333.html)
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Bill Scheibe said he’d tried repeatedly over the years to help his mother, to no avail.
“If I had a dollar for every time I discussed this issue with her, tried to work with her on this situation, I could buy your TV station,” he said. “Anybody who deals with addiction [knows that] you can’t help somebody who doesn’t want to get helped.”
Bill Scheibe said his older brother lived with their mom but because of the scope of the hoarding couldn’t keep track of her decline. He said they lived in separate parts of the bi-level home.
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Authorities dressed in hazmat suits discovered a house that was filled with garbage, according to FOX 32 News in Chicago. One neighbor even called it the “stinky house.”
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Covered in trash….stench so unbearable
“more later on this really _*disgusting*_ story”
Bill Scheibe said he hadn’t been in the house for 20 years, and usually met his mother in the driveway when picking her up. But he was aware of his mother’s hoarding, he said. Every time he spoke to her, he encouraged her to get help cleaning it or just move out, he said. After a while, he said he felt helpless.
“She was smart as a tack,” he said. “There is not a court in America that would have declared her incompetent. … That was her little world and she never was leaving it.”
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“It was sad the way she lived. It was sad the way she died. And she shouldn’t have died this way,” said Bill Scheibe. “She is still my mother and she’s still somebody’s mother. She’s not just a piece of trash.”
Despite living in the home, son Frank Scheibe says he’s not sure when his mother died. “I love her very much. She’s very much missed,” he told ABC7.
Scheibe said his brother Frank, who served in the Air Force in the 1980s, suffered a nervous breakdown during his time in the service. Since then, his older brother has struggled with mental health issues and has lived with his parents. He’s been unemployed for the last six to seven years, Scheibe said.
“He’s never been the same,” Scheibe said.
Knolmayer said police do not suspect foul play, and said no charges would be filed against Scheibe’s 46-year-old son Frank, who also lived in the home.
“It was almost like two separate living quarters. She lived [split level home] down stairs and he lived upstairs,” Knolmayer said. “According to his statements, he wasn’t allowed downstairs and he respected her wishes.”
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Scheibe declined to talk about the collection of trash and said he hadn’t been inside the house in 20 years.
“If you grew up with a hoarder, would you want to go back?” he said. “You love the people, but would you go back?”
Scheibe said his mother also was always picking up coins.
“And since Saturday, when I went to the house, I’ve been finding money,” he said. “I found a penny in the police station on Saturday, found a penny there Tuesday, I found a dollar by my car, and found a quarter today. That’s my mom trying to say goodbye.”
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