Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration

FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.

The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.

State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.

"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.

"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.

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jaded society is what we are

 

wow tat creepy

 

imagine walking pass that... -shock

 

that's crazy! imagine walking pass a dead body and not knowing that it was real. that's wack

 

hahahah that reminds me of that Stephen Chow movie where his crazy ass was a ghost hunter... and the guy kept tryin to kill himself but Stephen Chow kept reviving him back to life... -rotfl -clapclap -clapclap

 

That's really creepy.

 

That's really terrible, what a horrible event.

 

creepy and sad

 

ppl walking/driving by must have been like "wow that so real like"

 

damn and what if some passer-byer took a picture and then found about it... that woulda some creepy ish..

 

haha yea that would be freaky

 

Just reading about it sends chills down my body, and you's making it worst with all the what if's/imagine if's... very creepy.