03-14-2004, 07:16 AM
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Insane
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Here's a story along the same line as this thread.
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He died 3 years ago; no one knew till last week.
NANAIMO -- Until he screwed up the courage the other day to break into his neighbour's place, Mike Gyger had wondered for years if the old man who lived in the dilapidated mobile home across the road had simply died without anyone noticing.
He hadn't seen Terry Ekonomides, a strapping, handsome 76-year-old Greek, since at least the spring of 2001, when his neighbour said he was heading off for another visit to family overseas.
But last Friday, after a Canada Customs and Revenue Agency official had called for the third time to wonder if Gyger knew anything about his neighbour, he decided to act.
With a friend along to give him courage, Gyger broke a window in the vestibule of the mobile home and gingerly walked through the derelict, rat feces-infested building. The ceilings had started to fall down, and the place reeked. It was, from what he could see, a wreck no one had lived in for years.
But in a back bedroom, out of sight of anyone who might have casually looked through the windows, he found Ekonomides' remains splayed out on the bed, an uncradled phone by his boots and his toupee on a nearby shelf.
"I guess I'd always had a gut feeling that something was wrong, that he was in there," Gyger said Thursday. "The problem was, he never told his neighbours when he went, and we'd learned to leave him alone. I wish now that we'd gone over sooner."
Coroner Dick Miller said Ekonomides died sometime in early 2001, likely of natural causes.
What no one can explain, it seems, is how a man can die unnoticed by everyone and be left in his home for more than three years. No one had raised alarms. Not his estranged first family -- including a son, two daughters and a wife he'd never divorced. Not his second "wife" -- Manhing Ekonomides -- who lives in Hong Kong and whose name is on the title for the property but who cannot be found. Not his elderly sister in Volos, Greece, where he annually visited to collect rent on a family estate.
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LINK to the rest of the story. It's a weird one.
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