Yvette Vickers remains found Mummified

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  1. Texastoyz

    Texastoyz Forum Resident

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    Coroner says 1959 Playmate died from heart disease

    LOS ANGELES – The badly decomposed body found in a dilapidated hillside home overlooking Beverly Hills was former B-movie actress and 1959 Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers and an autopsy showed she died from heart disease, authorities said Friday.

    Vickers, 82, was found April 27 by a neighbor in her Benedict Canyon house. While foul play wasn't suspected, her death captured headlines after authorities estimated her remains could have been there from a few months to a year.

    County coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter, however, couldn't say Friday when Vickers had actually passed away.

    Born Yvette Vedder in 1928, Vickers' first film role was in "Sunset Boulevard" in 1950. After the James Cagney-directed "Short Cut to Hell" flopped, she turned to B-movies, appearing in "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" and "Attack of the Giant Leeches."

    She appeared in Playboy as Miss July 1959.

    Neighbors said Vickers kept to herself and there hadn't been many signs that something was amiss at her one-bedroom house. Once letters started piling up in her mailbox, the neighbor went to check on Vickers and found her body. Inside, a space heater was on as was a computer.

    Winter said Vickers, who wasn't believed to have any children, has a brother who was notified about her death.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110513...DeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2Nvcm9uZXJzYXlzMQ--
     
  2. shockedfountain

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    County coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter, however, couldn't say Friday when Vickers had actually passed away.

    They could get a pretty good idea when she died just by looking at the mail.
     
  3. SoundAdvice

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    Checking expiry dates of fridge food or bread could also be an indicator. Or her computer would narrow down the last time it had activity even though it was left on for a couple months.
     
  4. Cheepnik

    Cheepnik Overfed long-haired leaping gnome

    She had her mail stopped many months before she died.
     
  5. shockedfountain

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    But the article says "Once letters started piling up in her mailbox, the neighbor went to check on Vickers and found her body."
     
  6. El Bacho

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    There's unsolicited mail.
     
  7. Cheepnik

    Cheepnik Overfed long-haired leaping gnome

    From this week's Entertainment Weekly:

    The part about letters piling up was probably reported erroneously when the story first broke, and the AP reporter picked up that tidbit without verifying it on his own.
     
  8. All Rights

    All Rights Senior Member

    Years later? This seems unlikely (maybe days later) and I've never heard of such a case in an apartment building. Neighbors in surrounding apartments would call the Police to complain of odors (decomposition), the NYPD would get the Super to open the door or break it down themselves and call the M.E.

    Maybe in a private townhouse on 5th ave or such but not in a tenement or Doorman building.
     
  9. jsayers

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    She had a great <yet small> role in Paul Newman's "Hud" playing a cheating housewife stepping out with Hud in a scene in a diner with Melvyn Douglas and Brandon DeWilde. All four of them are dead now. Damn. :sigh:
     

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  10. JulesDassin

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    I just watched The Amazing Colossal Man today... would have been something to see those two on the Las Vegas Strip together.
     
  11. kippy

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