{"id":3697,"date":"2012-02-16T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2012-04-03T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T08:19:11","slug":"son-offers-backstory-on-moms-fatal-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Son Offers Backstory on Mom’s Fatal Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Autopsy shows Margareta Scheibe died of a heart attack
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Bill Scheibe said he’d tried repeatedly over the years to help his mother, to no avail.<\/p>\n

“If I had a dollar for every time I discussed this issue with her, tried to work with her on this situation, I could buy your TV station,” he said. “Anybody who deals with addiction [knows that] you can’t help somebody who doesn’t want to get helped.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bill Scheibe said his older brother lived with their mom but because of the scope of the hoarding couldn’t keep track of her decline. He said they lived in separate parts of the bi-level home.<\/p>\n

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\nAuthorities dressed in hazmat suits discovered a house that was filled with garbage, according to FOX 32 News in Chicago. One neighbor even called it the “stinky house.”
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Covered in trash….stench so unbearable
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Bill Scheibe said he hadn’t been in the house for 20 years, and usually met his mother in the driveway when picking her up. But he was aware of his mother’s hoarding, he said. Every time he spoke to her, he encouraged her to get help cleaning it or just move out, he said. After a while, he said he felt helpless.<\/p>\n

“She was smart as a tack,” he said. “There is not a court in America that would have declared her incompetent. … That was her little world and she never was leaving it.”<\/em>
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“It was sad the way she lived. It was sad the way she died. And she shouldn’t have died this way,” said Bill Scheibe. “She is still my mother and she’s still somebody’s mother. She’s not just a piece of trash.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite living in the home, son Frank Scheibe says he’s not sure when his mother died. “I love her very much. She’s very much missed,” he told ABC7.<\/p>\n

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Scheibe said his brother Frank, who served in the Air Force in the 1980s, suffered a nervous breakdown during his time in the service. Since then, his older brother has struggled with mental health issues and has lived with his parents. He’s been unemployed for the last six to seven years, Scheibe said.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s never been the same,<\/em>” Scheibe said.<\/p>\n

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Knolmayer said police do not suspect foul play, and said no charges would be filed against Scheibe\u2019s 46-year-old son Frank, who also lived in the home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was almost like two separate living quarters. She lived [split level home] down stairs and he lived upstairs,\u201d Knolmayer said. \u201cAccording to his statements, he wasn\u2019t allowed downstairs and he respected her wishes.\u201d
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Scheibe declined to talk about the collection of trash and said he hadn\u2019t been inside the house in 20 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you grew up with a hoarder, would you want to go back?\u201d he said. \u201cYou love the people, but would you go back?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Scheibe said his mother also was always picking up coins.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd since Saturday, when I went to the house, I\u2019ve been finding money,\u201d he said. \u201cI found a penny in the police station on Saturday, found a penny there Tuesday, I found a dollar by my car, and found a quarter today. That\u2019s my mom trying to say goodbye.\u201d<\/em>
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Autopsy shows Margareta Scheibe died of a heart attack (http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/Worth-Womans-Body-Found-Buried-in-Trash-139350333.html)   Additional quotes found regarding this sad story: Bill Scheibe said he’d tried repeatedly over the years to help his mother, to no avail. “If I had a dollar for every time I discussed this issue with her, tried to work with her on this … <\/p>\n

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