'Death is very hard for me to take,' she says, as police investigate
WYALUSING, Pa. — The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. But she wasn't alone, not really, not as long as she could visit her husband and twin sister.
No matter they were already dead. Jean Stevens simply had their embalmed corpses dug up and stored them at her house — in the case of her late husband, for more than a decade — tending to the remains as best she could until police were finally tipped off last month.
Much to her dismay.
"Death is very hard for me to take," Stevens told an interviewer.
As state police finish their investigation into a singularly macabre case — no charges have been filed — Stevens wishes she could be reunited with James Stevens, her husband of nearly 60 years who died in 1999, and June Stevens, the twin who died last October. But their bodies are with the Bradford County coroner now, off-limits to the woman who loved them best.
From time to time, stories of exhumed bodies are reported, but rarely do those involved offer an explanation. Jean Stevens, seeming more grandmother than ghoul, holds little back as she describes what happened outside this small town in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains.
She knows what people must think of her. But she had her reasons, and they are complicated, a bit sad, and in their own peculiar way, sweet.
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5 comments:
Someone get this woman some grief counseling.
poor woman. I feel for her. She wasnt doing anything criminal. That was her husband of so long and a sister she knew all her life. I surely hope there are no charges for this poor woman.
I agree Felicity
I think (hope) that the courts have better things to do with their time than waste it on trying to put an old lady away who was struck with grief and the reality of being alone for the rest of her life.
yes this is sad, but there are laws on the books for a reason. There are serious health risks associated with being around a decaying corpse. I agree there should be no punishment for the old lady, but what about the people who helped her exhume the graves? surely these people knew they were commiting a crime. Sad, Sad case, i've never heard of anything like it.
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