Monday, Feb 25, 2008
How fraud led to this property changing hands 3 times as son of owner sat dead inside
Chicago Tribune: This house was a steal
"The new buyers of a rundown graystone on the South Side showed up Jan. 9 to look at the house they won at a foreclosure auction. They took the plywood off the front door and went inside to make sure the utilities had been shut off. Then they called the police.
Sitting upright in the corner of a bedroom off the kitchen was a human skeleton in a red tracksuit. Next to him lay a dead dog. Neighbors told police the corpse was almost certainly Randy Johnson, a middle-age man who lived alone in the North Kenwood house."
Posted by happyrenterz @ 09:30 PM (376 views) Add Comment
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1. paul said...
This would never happen in the UK of course - we have the tireless and fearless Financial Services Authority making sure every plays by the rules and doesn't take too many risks.
... or maybe that's fireless and tearless.
2. lvmreader said...
Dark, Dark sense of humour fate has.....
3. Reuben Klopek said...
It's quite surprising, this story. I mean, the property's investors had the decency to call the police. They must be going soft - I would have expected property investors just to have chucked the corpse out and get their snouts in the trough.