Former Playboy Playmate Likely Found ‘Mummified’ in Her Own Home
- Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:32am by
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County coroners are trying to confirm that a badly decomposed body found in the home of former Playboy Playmate and B-movie actress Yvette Vickers is hers.
A neighbor discovered the body in a mummified state last week, police told the Los Angeles Times.
The body appeared to have gone undiscovered for an unknown period of time – anywhere from several months to a year – and investigators weren’t able to determine if it was the remains of a man or woman, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said.
Neighbor Susan Savage told the Times she saw letters and cobwebs in Vickers‘ mailbox before going into her neglected home in the Benedict Canyon area to discover what she believed to be the actress’s unrecognizable remains.
“The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow,” Savage said. “I just had a bad feeling.”
When she entered the house, Savage said she moved through stacks of clutter before finding the body upstairs in a room with a small space heater still on.
The 82-year-old Vickers had appeared in cult movies such as “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches.” The voluptuous blonde was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in July 1959.
Savage said she remembered her neighbor as an elegant woman with flowing blond hair and “a warm smile.”
“She kept to herself, had friends and seemed like a very independent spirit,” Savage said. “To the end she still got cards and letters from all over the world requesting photos and still wanting to be her friend.”
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Comments (83)
EZDOZIT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:01pmShe can’t get no satifaction.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:58pmBill Clinton likes girls mummified.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:57pmNotice the wrecked cars under the 50 foot woman? Girls fart too.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:18amPoster? Accident scene? Gas?
Report Post »Mr.ManZ
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:11amOk some posters on this thread are total sick 0s. Aren‘t you guys late for brunch with the Obama’s?
Report Post »rightsidethinker
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:44amWho was paying the electric bill? My utility cuts off power when bill is overdue by more than 2 months.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:28pmProbably an automatic payment system, if it was actually still on.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:36amTo be completely honest, I would much prefer being alone to having a pesky family suffocating my life.
Report Post »Imagine, no nagging, no borrowing money out, no insipid “small talk”.
bailey08
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:24amI’m going to try and give this a positive spin.
She liked being independent, like living alone and would rather die in her own home than some cold antiseptic hospital or in a nursing home.
But like some of you said it looks like her friends would have become concerned after not hearing from her for months. Looks like the neighbors would have been concerned after not seeing her for so long.
It is sad to me, not that she died alone in her home, but no one noticed for so long.
I tell my friends I will probably be discovered fossilized, with my fossilized dog by my side, sitting under a tree somewhere in the mountains. If I’m there for months, years, or forever that’s fine with me. Rather end up like that in nature, than in a box under the ground.
RIP tall lady….
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:32pmOk, keep your day job. That falls somewhat short of “positive spin”. Unless of course you want to go work for the “Regime”. We could use someone like you there… :)
Report Post »Paula
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:17amSo the space heater had been on for a YEAR??
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:31amWho paid the electric bill?
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:44amLots of people use auto payments these day. If she had sufficient bux in the bank she may have had all of her utilities set up that way and no one would notice until the cash ran out.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:10amWith the Obamacare Death Panels we will be seeing the elderly dying at home, alone, all the time very soon.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:10amThis is where the post office could have stepped in. I mean the letter carrier is putting mail in the box. Why when the mail hasn’t been picked up for several days, they couldn’t have made a note of it and then a wellness check done.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:21amToo bad she didn’t have friends or family to check on her once in a while..
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:50am2cranberry, i was just thinking the same, the lady said she had lots of friends,i guess they weren’t friends after all,just moochers,what a shame,how can any one forget about a friend or neighbor,even if you don’t get a long,at least you know when they are not coming and going,i really hope she did not suffer ,i hope and pray god let her die in peace,
Report Post »UPGRAYDD
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:17amSo this is how it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. I always wondered how you explain certain things to your grandchildren when your old wrinkled and gravity takes over. You know, things like tramp stamps and other tattoos, piercings and the occasional porno mag or movie. Sad in so many ways. These is a lot to be said for VIRTUE.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:15amA shame neighbors were so busy in their lives, they didn’t look out for this woman. Who cut the grass?
Report Post »Not hard on the eyes back in the day either.
teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:08am“ Hard” is a bad word?
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:32amNo, but when you don’t put a space between “hard” and “on” it turns into a bad word. :-)
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:33amOh…LOL..“hard on” I get it.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:29pmGood, bad… It’s all relative, if you’re a Liberal and a lot are nowadays… :)
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:27amThat woman is hundreds of feet tall compared to the cars.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:46amI can’t stop laughing…
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:43pmNo, cars were just really, really small back then. Hee-hee-hee!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:15amSad is the life of the Hollywood types, surrounded by leaches without ever supporting their victims and so they move on to the next artist to live off…
Report Post »9111315
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:59amWhat about self reliance?
Reliance on others such as an agent or union boss is what the land of sheeple are created from.
She made it to 82 on her own. Good for her.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:57amI believe you missed my point,
I’m all for self reliance and accountability but all those leaches that lived off her stardom obviously bailed on her when she need them and never even bothered check in on her in over a year at least if not more.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:46amSelf reliance was her forte miami. Certainly a positive attribute and an admirable trait. But maybe a liberal like yourself can’t process that type of thinking.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:08am“Attack” is one of my fave movies, and I have a DVD copy in my collection. It’s the campiest soap opera/horror flick I have ever seen, but I love it since I first saw it when I was five. Vickers played a ***** and was pretty, but the best-looking woman in the movie was Allyson Hayes, the 50-foot woman.
A shame, though, Vickers passed away and no one noticed for so long.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:58amI remember this girl and the movie and I remember reading the old playboy when it was a photography magazine, ion a box on the top shelf of the closet. There was nothing artificial about Yvette Vickers. (RIP)
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:53amOh, yes…playboy is so inocent..“it was just a sweet simple photography magazine”.
Report Post »Susie
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:53amOn the one hand it is very sad that it took so long for anyone to notice her missing. Yet on the other hand, I think one hopes that they can die in their own home instead of cooped up in some nursing home somewhere. My prayer is that she died peacefully in her sleep. She‘s in God’s care now.
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:50amIt’s sad to die alone. It’s even more sad to die and not have anyone notice for a year.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:43amEveryone dies alone!
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:30am@DVT: “Everyone dies alone!”
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…says someone who has never done it themself.
Report Post »TC
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:49amIts a shame she had no friends to check on her..phone calls..drop by and say hello people. She was ALONE!
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:37amYeah that’s whay my first thoughts were.
Report Post »Wow! I remeber Quisp cereal…. and Quake too. Remember the battle between Quisp and Quake? Quisp won…. do they still make Quisp? Haven’t seen it for years.
tierrah
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:23am@staggerlee32: lol … your screen name gives you away! That song hit the charts in 1959 during my era?
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:36pmYes, they still make “Quisp”, but I don’t know about “Quake”. Do an internet search for “Quisp & Quake”, and see if you can still buy it online from the manufacturer (General Mills?).
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:47amI remember that movie. Saw it as a child. Sad ending for anyone.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:39amWhy sad? She lived a fairly long life and from all accounts a fairly happy one. As an added bonus she won’t have to experience the economic crash and dark period the rest of us will thanks to The Great Pretender, Soros, the Fed and especially all of the moronic 60s radicals who are destroying the country from within like a malignant, metastasizing cancer. I for one will most likely be very happy to depart this crappy little planet when the time comes… What a **it hole.
Report Post »audaxrex
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:41pm@Nathaniel Horn “I for one will most likely be very happy to depart this crappy little planet when the time comes… What a **it hole.”
Report Post »That’s just sad – dismissing this beautiful gift we have been given, our children’s birthright. You sound like one of these guys who inherits the family farm, clearcuts it and sells it off for landfill. If it’s a s**thole, perhaps it‘s because you didn’t care enough to look after it.
Ingrate.
Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:22pmWow, you go from all sniffy-nose to cold blooded name caller in one short paragraph. An indignantly ignorant one at that. No, I should have been clearer. The natural beauty of Earth is the only nice thing about this little speck in the galaxy. It’s the humans actually who tend to be **it holes. You very generously make my point for me.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 6:49pmNathanial H is right.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:22amHow would you know, Nuts-O-Beck? You’re not a serious person. Besides that, you’re displaced in time and space… That’s gotta be painful.
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:46amIt‘s gotta be Obama’s fault. Gotta be.
Report Post »Boilervet
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:45amMaybe as a final acting job she was a mummy? Lame I know but….first!
Report Post »Issachar Crust
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:56amummmm, i think you miscalculated, but it’s all good my friend – you were second, LOL!!!
Report Post »indy1
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:22amIt’s the sad downside of fame.
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:45amThis is one reason why we need to watch out for our neighbors.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:55amNotice how in the photos, the cars that are wrecked are located on the stretch of highway that she is straddling. I guess the guys driving the cars didn’t have their eyes on the road huh?
Miami
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:09ambeckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 7:55am
Notice how in the photos, the cars that are wrecked are located on the stretch of highway that she is straddling. I guess the guys driving the cars didn’t have their eyes on the road huh?
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Once again you prove Liberals really have No Class
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:19am@Issachar Crust
Report Post »People, this is a circus act ……
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What a waste of typing.
DagneyT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:26amSmak, my observation as well. What the dickens was all that about, anyway????? Came across as gibberish!
Report Post »Issachar Crust
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:26am@smak
Report Post »Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:19am
@Issachar Crust
People, this is a circus act ……
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What a waste of typing.
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Maybe so, maybe you’re right, but just because you say so, won’t stop me! But you can keep trying to discredit me though. I know you hate to read what I blog, no matter, the truth will come out in the end, you’ll see.
Issachar Crust
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:31am@DagneyT
Report Post »Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:26am
Smak, my observation as well. What the dickens was all that about, anyway????? Came across as gibberish!
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It’s ok, no worries. Just go back to the story on the PIE CHARTS on the Blaze – and read my posts there.
grandmaof5
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:38amApparently she didn’t have as many friends as her neighbor thought if her body had been there a year or less. Very sad, and sad that her neighbors hadn’t questioned her absence sooner.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:49amYou may be onto something there Issachar. But I think that you may be off your meds too… Perfect way to get people to ignore you. :)
Report Post »Issachar Crust
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:57am@Nathaniel Horn
Report Post »Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:49am
You may be onto something there Issachar. But I think that you may be off your meds too… Perfect way to get people to ignore you. :)
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LOL, I can take it, no worries my friend.
beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:41amMiami, I’m a conservative. There goes your theory. And off you go.
Report Post »Glenn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:44am@beckisnuts
HAHAHAHA!
Report Post »LIBERALSBEDAMNED
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Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:47amSgt. Crust, someone is going to report you to the FBI if you continue posting the crazy stuff. Just FYI.
Report Post »Just Call Me Pat
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:50amLOL! Beckisnuts, I wonder if the artist for the poster drew it that way on purpose? Thanks for the belly laugh!
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:53amMakes one wonder, huh Pat? Thanks.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:02am@ beckisnuts, Your a conservative? A real conservative like your God and saviors Soros and Obama.
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:04amThat was a great old (although absolutely corny) Sci-Fi movie. I’ve often wondered what ever became of Yvette Vickers… now I know.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:10amNeofan, since I know how you crave my attention, and I’m in a good mood, I’ll grant your wish this one time. It is known here on The Blaze by some that yes, I am a conservative and was one back when Glenn was running around drunk with a bag of weed in his purse and a pony tail flapping around behind his thick skull. Thanks for asking little fellow. Off you go.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:41pmNutsofBeck: You are a strange stranger in a strange land. Careful, you’re going to acquire PTSD. No, really.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:39pmHornsofNathahole, thanks for sharing your drivel.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:19amThat picture is not to scale if she’s 50 feet tall. The overpass is around 16 feet and that goes up to her shin. That means she’s more like 150 feet tall!! I’m just sayin.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:06amoooh, Gotcha Beck’sNuts… :) Give’m a scratch for me- eh?
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