US EditionRetired detective found dead in hoarding conditions in Connecticut, months after she went missing
- Retired Bridgeport police detective Mary Notarangelo, 73, was found dead inside her hoarded home in Glastonbury in February 2025, roughly six months after last contact.
- Her friend last heard from her via text around June 12, 2024, reporting abdominal cramps, vomiting, and a fall before requesting a welfare check on July 3, 2024.
- Authorities struggled to find her due to 6-foot-tall garbage piles, dead birds in cages, mice, a live cat, cobwebs, and a strong stench obstructing multiple searches.
- Police found Notarangelo's skeletal remains beneath debris inside her front door within minutes of the February excavation, but the medical examiner could not determine her cause of death.
- The case highlights challenges in welfare checks and search efforts in severe hoarding, delaying her discovery and underscoring difficulties in such investigations.
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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.
Retired detective found dead in hoarding conditions in Glastonbury
Mary Notarangelo lived a reclusive life in her later years, according to the few people who had contact with her. The retired police detective tended to her many birds at her Connecticut home and posted videos of them on social media, including one accompanying her on a trip to a local crafts store. But a welfare check request to police...
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