Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found

[Skully]

Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found in her Benedict Canyon home

May 2, 2011 | 2:21 pm

Vickers Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.

Read all about it here.

 

[WrayGun]

Took almost a year to find her? Jeez. Sad.

 

[looney77]

That is the saddest thing I've heard in a while. Did she have no one? Be thankful for what you've got folks. Try to give a little away too.

 

[8upSS]

I assume someone was paying her bills for her, since the utilities were still on.

And they didn't even check on her? Sad indeed!

 

[Grit]

I assume someone was paying her bills for her, since the utilities were still on.

And they didn't even check on her? Sad indeed!

I'm guessing she had everything on automatic payment from the bank, but you think that someone would notice a build up of mail.

A truly sad way to go.

 

[robt57]

Poor old gal, RIP!

 

[rangercaster]

very sad ... i always worry about my elderly neighbors ...i also work in a retirement home where we tend to find them a little sooner ...

 

[Bolide]

I have memory of June Lockhart appearing on the Larry King Show a few days after the body of Guy Williams was discovered, and watching her cringe at the first caller who mentioned "Lost in Space." Truly sad to go that way.

sic transit and all that

 

[Shepherd]

It's a sad society we live in.

 

[elicross]

What's really shocking is that she still looked better than Hef.

Seriously, though -- what a sad way to go, with no one to even notice you were gone. It must mean she had so few visitors, even so few phone calls, that nobody noticed she wasn't answering the door or the phone for months. It's one thing if you want to be left alone...but does anybody really want to be *that* alone?

Like Grit said, surely the mail piled up. You'd think the USPS would have a policy of contacting the local police to do a welfare check when the mail piles up for more than a month. Maybe they do, and her mailman just didn't do what he was supposed to.

 

[Earguy]

This thread is truly useless without pictures. Not suitable for work.

Bonus: vinyl, turntable

 

[geetarfreek82]

This kind of thing is sad. My father was an alcoholic... He had lost his job and secluded himself in the middle of nowhere in a dilapidated trailer. He also had diabetes and had replaced his insulin with vodka. The last few times I spoke to him he was a drunken mess. That was March 3rd... On March 8TH, 2011, his neighbor found him dead in his house. Apparently he died shortly after I last spoke to him on the phone. I still beat myself up over the fact that I should have called him when I didn't hear from him for a couple days.

 

[b2187101]

Very Sad story. Other than that... the woman who pried open the gate, scaled the overgrown hill, peered into the dilapidated house, moved through the clutter while the hum of a space heater came from an upstairs bedroom... ascended the staircase, moved towards the noise... to find the mummified body. She is heck of a lot braver than I would have been; I would have just called the Sherriff. I mean, has that woman NEVER seen a horror movie before?

I do not mean to belittle the sad facts of the story, but man.

 

[Paul in Colorado]

A friend of mine killed herself recently. (Overdose of Valium and Mood Enhancers) It was about a week before anyone found her. She was living alone and friends had tried to get a hold of her. Finally they got the Sheriff's Dept. to break in. She was unemployed and almost out of money and was probably bi-polar. She hated taking her meds, but that's what she took to check out of this life.

 

[String Tree]

I lost a friend a couple of years ago.
He had Grand Mal Epilepsy.

Died in his bath tub, drowned during a seizure.

He wasn't found until after he didn't show up for work.
The people he worked with knew something wasn't right, but it was too late.

 

[kovachian]

Wow, a year? How can anyone NOT notice a 50 foot woman going missing?

 

[Duncas]

its so sad that no one missed her for a WHOLE YEAR! i get text messages if im 5mins late for lectures!

 

[Bones]

It's a sad society we live in.

I fail to see how this has anything to do with society??? 82 is a pretty good run and maybe she outlived most of the people who knew her or she was a major pain in the butt and alienated those who did care about her. Who knows, but I really don't see where society as a whole has anything to do with this.

 

[J-man]

RIP. As has been said it's very sad she went undiscovered for so long...

I lost a friend a couple of years ago.
He had Grand Mal Epilepsy.

Died in his bath tub, drowned during a seizure.

He wasn't found until after he didn't show up for work.
The people he worked with knew something wasn't right, but it was too late.

When I was in school a guy in my year lost his mother the same way - she had epilepsy and drowned in the bathtub after having a seizure caused by the fluorescent light flickering. He found her when he got home from school..

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Wasn't Lane Staley found after a month or so ?