{"id":5523,"date":"2014-12-24T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:56:28","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for December 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Un-resurrected Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h2>\n

A woman left her husband’s body rotting in a bedroom of their home because she thought he would rise from the dead, a Hamilton, Canada\u00a0court heard Monday December 1, 2014. \u00a0\u200bKaling Wald pleaded guilty to Coroner\u2019s Act charges of failing to notify police or the coroner that Peter Wald had died from an illness that wasn\u2019t being treated. She received\u00a0a suspended sentence and an order to get counselling as well as 18 months probation.<\/p>\n

The macabre case first came to light back in January 2014, when the woman was arrested and charged with neglect of duty regarding a dead body and indignity to a body. The two\u00a0charges were withdrawn\u00a0and replaced with the single\u00a0charge under the Coroner’s Act.\u00a0The sheriff found the 51-year-old\u2019s body while\u00a0trying to evict Wald and his family from their St. Matthews Avenue home in the city\u2019s north end last year. \u00a0Regional coroner Dr. Jack Stanborough told CBC News in a previous interview that Wald\u2019s body was found in an \u201cadvanced state of decomposition\u201d when it was discovered in an upstairs bedroom.\u00a0\u201cEvidence suggests he\u2019d been dead for weeks, if not months,\u201d Stanborough said.<\/p>\n

Wald died around March 20,\u00a02013, according to summary of the case’s facts provided by Crown counsel Janet Booy. He had diabetes and was suffering from a foot\u00a0infection. Neighbours in the area told CBC News that Wald had been seen hobbling for\u00a0some time before he stopped being seen in public.\u00a0When neighbours asked his wife about him, all she would say was he \u201cwas in God\u2019s hands now.\u201d Wald refused to go to hospital. “He believed God would cure him,” Booy wrote.<\/p>\n

Neighbours described Wald as a deeply religious\u00a0but kind man. He could be seen driving through Hamilton in a blue Astro van adorned with religious symbols and sayings. He could also be seen wearing clothing with religious-themed writing on it.\u00a0Both lawyers in the case agreed that Kaling Wald had no ill intent.\u00a0“We were trusting God \u2026 we thought, ‘OK Lord, you know better,'” Wald told the\u00a0Spectator.\u00a0Wald thought her husband went into a coma “sometime in March and eventually died, probably around March 20, 2013,” Booy wrote.<\/p>\n

Wald slept in the bed with her husband for one night, just before he died. Then she noticed his stomach was bloating and rigor mortis was setting in on his forehead.\u00a0After he died, his wife sealed off the room so the smell of the body wouldn\u2019t permeate through the rest of the house, where she was still living with her six children.\u00a0“Kaling and her five children who resided in the house are devout Christians and thought Peter would be resurrected and therefore kept the door locked and waited for him to come to life,” Booy wrote. “There were also friends who resided at the house. They all prayed on a daily basis for Peter to come back to life.”<\/p>\n

Wald\u2019s body sat in the\u00a0room until September, when the sheriff came to evict them from the\u00a0home after they defaulted on the mortgage.\u00a0Health officials and police were called in, but the body had decomposed to the point that it was impossible to confirm a cause of death.\u00a0Stanborough said the body was in an \u201cadvanced state of decomposition.\u201d Wald was found covered with two blankets and a toque on his head. His feet were sticking out from underneath the blankets, and there was gauze wrapped around his left foot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was nothing in the examination that would suggest criminal activity or public health concerns,” Stanborough said in a previous interview.\u00a0The Children\u2019s Aid Society was previously called in, but found no concerns for the children’s\u00a0well-being and the case was closed, the\u00a0Spectator\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Yahoo News
\nGenerously submitted by: Wallace<\/p>\n

“No concerns for the children’s well-being”? \u00a0None at all? \u00a0Dead father rotting upstairs, crazy mother telling the kids he’s gonna be resurrected? \u00a0That doesn’t cause any concern? \u00a0Hmmmm. \u00a0Interesting.<\/p>\n

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Garretdom!<\/h2>\n

Oh, our shameful past. \u00a0This is an article from the Chico (California) Weekly Courant originally published on Saturday, November 18, 1865:
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INDIANS. \u2013\u00a0It will be seen by extracts from a letter written by Mr. Nance, of this place, that the Indians are still committing their depredations about Humboldt.\u00a0 Nothing but extermination will prevent them from committing their depredations.\u00a0 It is a false notion of humanity to save the lives of these red devils.\u00a0 There should be no prisoners taken, but a general sacrifice made of the whole race.\u00a0 They are of no benefit to themselves or mankind, but like the rattlesnake live only to slay.\u00a0 Like the wild beast of prey they are necessarily exterminated by the march of civilization.\u00a0 The tribes of Indians upon this Coast can no more be civilized than the jaugar [sic<\/em>].\u00a0 If necessary let there be a crusade, and every man that can carry and shoot a gun turn out and hunt the red devils to their holes and there bury them, leaving not a root or branch of them remaining, then we shall record no more massacres.<\/p>\n

From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<\/em><\/p>\n

More of our Racist past<\/a> can be seen at Garretdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fetus Du Jour!<\/h2>\n

Here’s another 1930’s fetus that I photographed at the\u00a0Museum of Science and Industry<\/a>. This guy looks like he’s playing air guitar, rocking out to The Wombtown Rats. \u00a0Or The Fetals. \u00a0(Your turn…)
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