Woman Missing For Months Found Buried Under Piles Of Hoarded Trash In Her Own Home

A retired constabulary detective’s skeletal remains person been recovered wrong her rural Connecticut home filled pinch hoarding conditions 7 months aft she was reported missing. 

The remains of 73-year-old Mary Notarangelo were discovered successful February aft activity crews arrived astatine her agrarian Connecticut location to region piles of trash accumulated from nan retired detective’s hoarding behavior, according to nan Glastonbury Police Department.  

Notarangelo was last heard from astir June 12, 2024, erstwhile she texted a friend to opportunity she was suffering from abdominal cramps and vomiting and had fallen. Approximately 3 weeks later, nan friend called nan constabulary to petition a use check. 

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This aerial photograph taken Jun. 17, 2025, successful Glastonbury, Connecticut, shows nan location of Mary Notarangelo, a 73-year-old female who was recovered dormant nether piles of debris successful her location successful February. (Dave Zajac/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP)

Seven months later, connected Feb. 24, an biology services unit was called to Notarangelo’s location to statesman removing nan "mountains" of garbage. Notarangelo’s skeletal remains were discovered aft workers utilized a mini excavator to shovel a ample heap of debris from down her beforehand door.  

Authorities person not provided a logic why it took complete half a twelvemonth to find Notarangelo’s remains, though officials pointed to nan ample magnitude of trash successful her home. Glastonbury constabulary said conditions successful nan location were among nan worst they person seen and analyzable attempts to find Notarangelo.

Officials reported uncovering cages of dormant birds, a unrecorded feline and mice wrong nan home, which besides had a unspeakable stench. 

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Mary Notarangelo's skeletal remains were recovered wrong her location astir 7 months aft she was past heard from by friends. (iStock)

"Once inside, I observed much mountains of garbage, cobwebs and spiders," Officer Anthony Longo reported. "There was nary way whatsoever. The only measurement to move from room to room was by climbing complete nan garbage."

Local authorities conducted their first hunt of nan location connected July 3, 2024, but were incapable to find Notarangelo, citing hoarding piles arsenic nan superior factor. A drone was besides deployed into nan house, but yet struck cobwebs and was disabled, according to police. Additional searches were conducted connected July 5, July 11, July 12 and Nov. 20, but Notarangelo was ne'er found. 

"It’s truthful upsetting and truthful sad," said Patti Steeves, a friend of Notarangelo’s who antecedently worked astatine nan Bridgeport Police Department arsenic a civilian employee. "She, arsenic quirky arsenic she was, was a bully personification astatine heart."

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Authorities reportedly made aggregate unsuccessful attempts to find Mary Notarangelo, but were incapable to participate her location owed to nan hoarding conditions.  (iStock)

Steeves revealed she had made attempts to speak pinch her friend astir nan hoarding, but Notarangelo did not want to talk nan issue. Notarangelo was besides a "bird fanatic" and had astir 20 birds, on pinch a feline and dog, her friend said. 

Notarangelo worked pinch nan Bridgeport constabulary from 1985 to 1996, and was promoted to detective successful 1992 and to sergeant a twelvemonth later, according to nan department. She later retired connected disablement pursuing an on-duty car crash, Steeves said. 

Notarangelo’s origin of decease could not beryllium wished because her remains were chiefly skeletal, nan authorities aesculapian examiner’s agency said. 

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.