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 with hoarding conditions 7 months aft she was reported missing. 

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

Notarangelo was last heard from astir June 12, 2024, erstwhile she texted a person to accidental she was suffering from abdominal cramps and vomiting and had fallen. Approximately 3 weeks later, the person called the constabulary to petition a payment check. 

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This aerial photograph taken Jun. 17, 2025, successful Glastonbury, Connecticut, shows the location of Mary Notarangelo, a 73-year-old pistillate 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 the "mountains" of garbage. Notarangelo’s skeletal remains were discovered aft workers utilized a tiny excavator to shovel a ample heap of debris from down her beforehand door.  

Authorities person not provided a crushed wherefore it took implicit fractional a twelvemonth to find Notarangelo’s remains, though officials pointed to the ample magnitude of trash successful her home. Glastonbury constabulary said conditions successful the location were among the worst they person seen and analyzable attempts to find Notarangelo.

Officials reported uncovering cages of dormant birds, a unrecorded feline and mice wrong the 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 lone mode to determination from country to country was by climbing implicit the garbage."

Local authorities conducted their archetypal hunt of the location connected July 3, 2024, but were incapable to find Notarangelo, citing hoarding piles arsenic the superior factor. A drone was besides deployed into the 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 person of Notarangelo’s who antecedently worked astatine the Bridgeport Police Department arsenic a civilian employee. "She, arsenic quirky arsenic she was, was a bully idiosyncratic 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 the hoarding conditions.  (iStock)

Steeves revealed she had made attempts to talk with her person astir the hoarding, but Notarangelo did not privation to sermon the issue. Notarangelo was besides a "bird fanatic" and had astir 20 birds, on with a feline and dog, her person said. 

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

Notarangelo’s origin of decease could not beryllium determined due to the fact that her remains were chiefly skeletal, the authorities aesculapian examiner’s bureau said. 

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The Glastonbury Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.