Badly decomposed body of man found in hoarder Brooklyn home, wife sent for ...
Badly decomposed body of man, 84, is found in his hoarder Brooklyn apartment as wife, 72, is sent for psychiatric evaluation because she planned to wait a YEAR before reporting his death Brent Shapiro, 84, was found dead inside his Brooklyn apartment on Saturday Police arrived at the apartment on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood in response to a wellness check Police used the fire escape to get inside because the home was so full of trash The couple's adult children said they had not seen their parents since 2019 They described their parents as mentally ill Shapiro's 72-year-old wife told police she had planned to wait a year before notifying authorities that he had died She was taken to a hospital for psychiatric observation
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The badly decomposed body of an 84-year-old man was discovered over the weekend among piles of trash inside the Brooklyn apartment he shared with his wife, who reportedly was planning to wait a year before notifying the police of his death.
Brent Shapiro's body was found hours after police responded to the home on Coney Island Avenue near Glenwood Road in Midwood on Saturday.
When police arrived around 7pm, they discovered the apartment building was so full of trash that they had to use the fire escape to get inside the third-floor bedroom, the New York Daily News reported.
Shapiro's body was located among the piles of trash.
He had died of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease,
