US EditionRetired detective found dead in hoarding conditions in Connecticut, months after she went missing
GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, JUN 18 – Mary Notarangelo's remains were found under six-foot-high debris after months of failed searches hindered by severe hoarding, police said.
- Mary Notarangelo, a 73-year-old retired Bridgeport police detective, was found dead in her Glastonbury home under piles of garbage in February 2025.
- She went missing around early June 2024 after last texting a friend about abdominal cramps, vomiting, and a fall, prompting a welfare check request on July 3, 2024.
- Authorities faced severe hoarding conditions at her rural home, with 6-foot-tall garbage piles blocking entry and complicating several search attempts over months.
- Her remains were mostly skeletal and discovered beneath debris by a work crew using a small excavator, while the cause of death remained undetermined due to decomposition.
- The case highlights dangers of hoarding disorder, which affects 2-6% of the population and remains incurable, while friends remembered her as passionate about her faith, job, and animals.
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Retired detective found dead in Connecticut hoarder house months after disappearance
A retired detective was found dead inside a Connecticut hoarder house some six months after she was first reported missing, police said. Mary Notarangelo was last seen alive in June 2024 and reported missing in July the same year. Nearly six months later her skeletal remains were discovered during the excavation of massive debris piles inside her single-family home in Glastonbury. They were were found beneath a pile of rubbish heaped just inside…
Retired Connecticut detective found dead inside her hoarder home — eight months after she went missing
Mary A. Notarangelo, 73, had to be removed from her Glastonbury home with an excavator after conditions inside made it nearly impossible to search the property, police Chief Marshall Porter told the Connecticut Insider this week.
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Retired detective found dead in hoarding conditions in Connecticut, months after she went missing
A retired Connecticut police detective who went missing last year was found seven months later buried under debris in hoarding conditions in her home.
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