THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO...WTF?

I'm really unsure how this happened, but it's another one of those stories where you'll find yourself shaking your head in disbelief. So, it turns out; a Japanese woman unintentionally lived with her brother's mummified corpse for more than a year. When she realized that he was dead, she had a fit of panic, chopped his body up and threw him in the trash. That's what any normal person would do when they find they brother mummified in their house, right? How do you go more than a year not realizing that you haven't seen your brother in your own house is what I don't understand. 

Apparently, Masao Tadano was a reclusive character, who was not seen by the rest of his family for decades. He lived with his two sisters in the Northern area of Hokkaido, Japan. Tadano preferred to stay in his bedroom and was left alone by his siblings, who say they hadn't seen him since 2010. Am I the only one who finds this a tad bit ridiculous? Really? You haven't seen a guy in two years and you don't even bother to knock on the door to see if things are okay? Not even once?

It wasn't until November 2012, when they finally checked on him because they were moving out of the house, that they discovered their 48-year-old brother had died. Apparently, the corpse had been sitting there for quite some time because it had started to decompose and mummify. In a state of panic, one of the sisters chopped up his corpse and dumped pieces of his body into plastic garbage bags. She claims that she didn't want to be criticized, so she thought it would be easier if she just got rid of his corpse in the trash. Who does that? What a psycho! Tadano's remains were discovered almost five months later by demolition workers who were knocking down the house that the family lived in, which sparked the police investigation. 

Police accept that the 49-year-old sister was not involved in his death, but she still faces charges of abandonment of a corpse. Screw that! How about abandonment of a human being while he was still alive? If they really cared about their brother, who lived in their house, they would've checked on him from time to time. I mean the guy had to come out and eat or shower, right? Shouldn't there have been a red flag there when he didn't do any of these things? How about the smell that I'm sure came from that room he was in? Wouldn't that have been a 'dead' giveaway that something was wrong? It's unclear as to exactly when Tadano died, but the state of his mummified corpse suggested that he'd been dead for at least 18 months when the demolition crew found him. I have to say that I think the sisters have to be responsible for his death. I still not buying the fact that they couldn't check in on him from time to time. Then, again, I don't know what it's like to live with a recluse.