New Orleans, May 16 -- A Lakeview residence in New Orleans became the centre of a disturbing investigation after city officials discovered the mummified remains of a 600-pound man who had been dead for approximately nine months, while his elderly mother, was found living in the home with the decomposing body.
The woman, identified as Barbara Hainsworth, a former physician described as mentally impaired in official documents, had been living in the home alongside her son's decomposed body amid what officials characterised as horrific and inhabitable conditions, reported by PEOPLE.
Her residence was reportedly "filled with garbage, chickens, roosters, rats" when code enforcement investigators with the City of New Orleans found her son's rem...