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NASCAR Corpse: Woman Watched TV With Dead Husband For Two Years

Posted: July 12, 2012

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Ready to be depressed? Linda Chase, a 72-year-old woman in Michigan, decided not to tell anyone about her husband’s passing so that she wouldn’t have to be alone. Chase said that she kept her husband Charles Zigler in front of the TV so that they could talk and watch NASCAR together.

Chase said:

“It’s not that I’m heartless. … I didn’t want to be alone. He was the only guy who was ever nice to me.”

According to the Associated Press, Zigler’s body was found last week. Authorities believe that Zigler died of natural causes in December, 2010, at the age of 67.

Web Pro News reports that authorities found Zigler’s body after his son, Wally, tried to visit. Wally said that he came to visit often but Chase would never let him inside the house.

Wally said:

“That wasn’t right to leave him lay like that.”

Chase wasn’t charged for keeping a dead body in her home but she was arrested for fraud. After Zigler died, Chase continued to collect his social security checks.

Chase said:

“I’m probably going to prison… I told them the truth. I didn’t lie about that.”

What do you think about Linda Chase and her relationship with her deceased husband. Is it sad? Depressing? Creepy?



Comments


47 Archived Responses to “ NASCAR Corpse: Woman Watched TV With Dead Husband For Two Years ”

  1. What did he look like?

  2. Steve Hillmer
    Jul 12, 2012

    You'd have to be dead to watch autoracing for that long.

  3. Typical NASCAR white trash!

  4. Typical NASCAR white trash!

  5. Rather sad and somewhat creepy.

  6. Phylissa Betzner Gutierrez
    Jul 12, 2012

    Ech.lech, and very sad….as well as creepy!

  7. What did he smell like?

  8. Anonymous
    Jul 12, 2012

    Well, I doubt he had a dopey stocking hat on….

  9. this story stinks.

  10. "Was he alright? – Bill Hader as Keith Morrison/"Dateline".

  11. James Watts
    Jul 12, 2012

    terribly sad, but there are a lot of older people who face the same thing every day. Just don't go to the extreme of not giving them up.

  12. It's a William Faulkner short story…

  13. The women is f***king NUTS! She needs to be in a pych ward….do you know how bad a body stinks after 2-3 days let alone 2 YEARS! What a moron!

  14. Reminds me of the true case of a doctor falling in love with a young female patient. After she died he kept her body for years and kept trying to slow the decomposition. Her sister was suspicious and had authorities search his home and they found her. Her face was covered with a mask by then as she had badly decomposed despite his greatest efforts. He was found not guilty at a trial and lived the rest to his life alone except for the mask of her face he made. Google Carl Tanzler.

  15. Very sad & of course creepy as hell! Norman Bates anyone? YIKES! She must have had a total mental breakdown. I wonder when they got married right out of high school? Maybe sweethearts since they were teenagers? How many decades they were together? They must have been together for a long time for her to do something that sick & extreme. The son never knew his father might be dead? After a year & a half of not seeing him weird! Why didn't he call the police like after the first week!

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    Jul 13, 2012

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  17. Well it's official, I am not the most screwed up person on the planet.

  18. Robert Hoeppner
    Jul 13, 2012

    Maybe he was dying to watch NASCAR! I know, I know, I won't quit my day job! :-)

  19. So very sad that she has no support system and obviously has mental health issues. Unfortunately, there are thousands more like her.

  20. I WONDER IF THEY HAD POPCORN.

  21. Richard Hooks
    Jul 13, 2012

    There are a lot of lonely elderly people in American. They want someone to love and care for them. It is sad but I could not send her to prison.

  22. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    not too funny guy of course there are a few guys like you in this world thankfully not too many ……….

  23. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    youre another morbid idiot

  24. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    hey kurt it wouldnt be too hard to tell what he looked like if he was dead i believe he looked dead., but dont quote me on it…..

  25. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    nah not after 2 years .. no meat left all bones but before the bones eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww !!!!!!!!

  26. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    with extra butter too , and a large box of jujyfruits too huh????????? sheeeeeeeeeeeeeez………

  27. Sad depressing creepy.

  28. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    ill bet that body stunk so bad the smell would make a train take a dirt road !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  29. Didn't. The son ever want to see his father.

  30. Hey, I thought his joke was In line with what the wife did. Funny.

  31. And I thought I was a NASCAR fan. If you don't believe me ask my wife. She has been on the couch for weeks.

  32. Bet she is a hoarder… just a wild guess.

  33. Bet she is a hoarder… just a wild guess.

  34. I don't think she wanted to give up the checks.

  35. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    and people used to think his farts stunk. Holy shit that house had to smell bad.

  36. Amy Pena
    Jul 13, 2012

    I just have to show my mom this article. I've JOKED with my mom for years now that if she passed at home, I would have her stuffed like some people do with their favorite pets. I would put her in front of her t.v. and replay her Johnny Carson shows. Not so funny now that this woman didn't want to be alone or did she want to keep his checks. I may kid around at being nuts, but some people are losing it. The son must have been his kid, shame on the son for not checking on his dad sooner or demanding to see him. Just sayin….

  37. Amy Pena
    Jul 13, 2012

    I just have to show my mom this article. I've JOKED with my mom for years now that if she passed at home, I would have her stuffed like some people do with their favorite pets. I would put her in front of her t.v. and replay her Johnny Carson shows. Not so funny now that this woman didn't want to be alone or did she want to keep his checks. I may kid around at being nuts, but some people are losing it. The son must have been his kid, shame on the son for not checking on his dad sooner or demanding to see him. Just sayin….

  38. Nascar can do that to you, especially a 500 lap race, I get bored to death until there is 10 laps to go and there is a caution for debris on the race track. then I wake up. was his name Bernie.

  39. Nascar can do that to you, especially a 500 lap race, I get bored to death until there is 10 laps to go and there is a caution for debris on the race track. then I wake up. was his name Bernie.

  40. Typical woman – won't even let the man rest when he's dead.

  41. Anonymous
    Jul 13, 2012

    In many countries in Asia, the Middle East, and other societies that treasure their parents, their parents live inside their grown children's houses.

  42. Retta Lindsay
    Jul 13, 2012

    LOL

  43. Uh, weekend at Bernies, anyone?

  44. Ellen Ast
    Jul 13, 2012

    Are you trying to give me a hint? Cuz it's not working!

  45. funny

  46. Becky Williamson
    Jul 14, 2012

    That is the funniest thing I have ever read!