Home boarded up after elderly woman found living with siblings' corpses
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Al Redmond stands Saturday in front of a house where he rented a garage in Evanston. A 90-year-old woman well-liked by her neighbors apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s, police say. (AP Photo/The Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Stewart)
EVANSTON - The suburban Chicago home where an elderly woman was found living with the corpses of her three siblings has been boarded up and the woman sent to a senior care facility.
Evanston police commander Tom Guenther says 90-year-old Margaret Bernstorff's home has been cleared and authorities are continuing their investigation.
The skeletal remains of the woman's siblings were found Friday morning by police who were called by a senior advocate.
One of the siblings hadn't been seen since the 1980s.
Police say they aren't considering criminal charges against the woman at this time.
Posted in News on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:00 am Updated: 11:50 am.
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