MOSCOW - Russian authorities say a woman with five children kept her husband's body in their apartment for almost three years after his death.
Prosecutors in the central
Yaroslavl region said the unidentified woman, described as a devout
Pentecostal Christian with a psychiatric record, was so distraught when
her husband died of natural causes in 2009 that she believed he “was
bound to resurrect.”
An investigation was opened after the body was found in a dumpster in a plastic bag in July.
The
prosecutors’ office said Monday that the woman kept the cadaver in a
bed in a room of her apartment and asked her children to talk to it and
feed it.
The office says two children decided to dispose of the body when the family moved to another apartment.
