"Bellingham police theorizing how couple died in littered home" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | July 17, 2010
Police believe a bizarre chain of events left an elderly couple and their dog dead in their cluttered Bellingham home, where police found the bodies Wednesday, possibly a week after their death....
On Wednesday morning, a mail carrier gave Victor Bowen his next-door neighbors’ mail; she couldn’t fit any more in their mailbox. Then he saw six newspapers scattered in their driveway.
Police arrived at 11:30 a.m. They could hear a television, but no one answered. Then they spotted a body by the front door, said Bellingham police Captain Gerard Corriveau.
Once authorities got inside, moving around was difficult.
“The house was quite messy, not in terms of garbage, just stuff. floor to ceiling, wall to wall,’’ Corriveau said. “You could describe them as hoarders, I suppose.’’
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