FREDERICA, Delaware (AP) -- 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
My wife cleaned rooms at a motel for several months to help her cousin out of a bind when all her maids quit.
She walked into a room one Sunday morning to find a man had hanged himself from the coat rack. That bothered her for quite a while. It wasn't around Halloween though.
When I was about 10 my cousin and I used to take a short cut down an alley from school. We found an elderly man layin in his driveway. We ran to our Grandma's house and she called 911. The poor guy had a heart attack and died. That bothered me for years even though it was a natural death.
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