Sibling Rivalry?

Okay, she wasn't living in a shoe exactly, but a 90-year-old woman in a house in Evanston, Illinois was discovered to be living with the corpses of her siblings.

Yup.

According to the AP, she may have been living with one of the deceased since the 1980's.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has identified the dead as Anita Bernstorff, who was born in 1910, Frank Bernstorff, who was born in 1920, and Elaine Bernstorff, who was born in 1916. Anita Bernstorff was last seen alive in May 2008, Frank Bernstorff in 2003 and Elaine Bernstorff in the early 1980s, authorities said.

Don't know what the remaining Bernstorff sister's name is, but we can't hold her completely responsible, can we? I mean, what the hell were Frank and Anita doing after Elaine croaked? And after Frank succumbed, Anita didn't do anything?

Neighbors described the woman as alert and aware, and they said she was well-liked on their close-knit block of large historic homes. She enjoyed gardening and shared her plants with others, they said.

One longtime resident said the woman explained away her siblings' absence by telling neighbors her brother had gone to live with other relatives and that one of her sisters was agoraphobic - afraid to leave the home. The resident said neighbors, who often took the woman food and groceries, were never inside.

Yeah, sure. Easy for them to say.