Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Three-year-old boy spent Christmas home alone with dead mother he thought was sleeping

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A three-year-old boy is believed to have spent days over Christmas sitting alone by the dead body of his ‘sleeping’ mother in the hope that she might ‘wake up’. At one point, his grandfather telephoned but the young child calmly told him 'mummy’s asleep’. It is not known what the boy did for food and drink. The heartbreaking tale unfolded in the French town of Loison-sous-Lens, in the northern Pas de Calais region, where Emilie Decroix, 28, collapsed.
Work colleagues in the nearby town of Lens presumed the single mother was off ill and unable to call in. Instead an aneurysm, or weak bulge in an artery wall, had ruptured close to her brain, causing the office worker to die suddenly. ‘Emilie lived alone with her little boy who clearly believed she was sleeping and might wake up,’ said a police source. ‘Before the ruptured aneurysm, she would have had all the appearances of a young, fit woman – the child could clearly not envisage that she might be dead.
‘Emilie had not contacted anyone since before Christmas, suggesting that she may have died before this time. Her father spoke to her son over the phone and was simply told that she was asleep.' Emilie had lived in the house for more than a year, but was a ‘quiet and hard-working’ woman who did not socialise much. Neighbours were used to seeing her leaving the house in the early morning and dropping her son off at a local nursery, and most assumed she had gone away for the holidays.
The child’s grandfather finally called round to the house on New Year’s Eve, where he found her dead body, with his grandson sitting quietly next to her. The source added: ‘The cause of death was quickly established, but the exact time of death is not yet known. Nobody knows exactly when Emilie died, but it is likely to have been before Christmas.’ A local police spokesman said the child, who had not been named for legal reasons, was currently in the care of his grandparents and was undergoing counselling.

Florida thief steals van -- along with body of 98-year-old dead woman

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Matilda Kazimir


FORT PIERCE -- A van thief in Fort Pierce may have gotten more than he bargained for over the weekend. What he may not have known is that he wasn't alone in the stolen vehicle.

Around 2 a.m. Sunday, a van from Tri-Country Mortuary went to pick up the body of Matilda Kazimir. As the van's owner was pulling away, he realized that he left his cell phone behind. The van was left running with Kazimir inside. That's when someone else jumped in and took off.

"I think what this started out as was a crime of opportunity," said Fort Pierce Sgt. Dennis McWilliams.

Matilda Kazimir lived the last year of her life at Fort Pierce Health Care on South 13th Street. She passed away over the weekend at the age of 98.

"She was a good woman, a good mother. We appreciated her," said son John Kazimir.

He was awakened in the middle of the night by a knock on the door. It was a Fort Pierce police sergeant.

"He says to me, 'Do you got a few minutes, I have some bad news for you.' He was the one who told me the vehicle disappeared," said Kazimir.

The van was found abandoned a short time later a few miles away on Stanton Avenue. Kazimir's body was undisturbed. Since the van was just plain white with no special markings, the thief may never have known he wasn't alone.

"Usually what happens is a body would have been placed in a body bag or receptacle and then a cover placed over that," said McWilliams said.

Kazimir said his relatives have no hard feelings against those involved, they're just relieved their mother's body was found.

"Anything could have happened. They could have driven the car into a canal somewhere or disposed of the body. Then we really would have been in bad shape," said son Nick Kazimir.

Services for Kazimir will be held in Fort Pierce, but she'll laid to rest next to her husband at the family's burial plot in New Jersey.

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UPDATE: Golden Voice Homeless Man Offered Job and House

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The homeless man with the "golden radio voice" wanted a second chance -- and did he ever get it.

As soon as Ted Williams, a panhandler who became an online hit after video of him begging on an Ohio roadside was posted to the Internet, appeared on a local radio show this morning the offers began pouring in -- including a dream job with the Cleveland Cavaliers and a free house.

"The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!," repeated a stunned Williams, 71, on local radio station WNCI.

A caller to the show who said she represented the Cavs offered Williams, who shot to stardom after local newspaper the Columbus Dispatch on Monday posted video of his perfectly-pitched panhandling, a full-time job doing voiceover work for the team and parent company and a free home in Cleveland.

The Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, native trained to be a radio announcer before drugs and alcohol ruined his chances at a career, and he was reduced to begging on the side of a road in Columbus, Ohio, before the newspaper found him.

Local police would refer to Williams as "Radio man," when chasing him from his usual begging spots, Williams said.

"I've been out there about a year; I just didn't know anything like this would ever happen," an overwhelmed Williams said earlier in the show. "There's so many words. I've already been characterized to [Scottish singing sensation] Susan Boyle ... I'm just so happy."

Before the Cavs made their bid, the station said a group of credit unions offered Williams a contract worth up to $10,000; a caller claiming to rep MTV expressed interest in having him guest-announce a show; and callers who said they were the voiceover actors behind plugs for "The Simpsons" and "Entertainment Tonight" said they wanted him to compete on their upcoming "America's Next Voice" -- where the prize includes a home studio.

For a man suddenly thrust from an Ohio roadside into the hearts of the world, Williams set his sights low.

"Just to get back to some normalcy and responsibility -- If I can get a job, whether it's a twenty-five or even $18,000, I'd be happy," he said. "At least I know God has me where he wants me."

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