Even I can't make up some of the shit that happens here in LA........
Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found in her Benedict
Canyon home
May 2, 2011 | 2:21 pm
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress
included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the
Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body
appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.
Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body
in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified
state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county
coroner's office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.
Vickers had lived in the 1920s-era stone and wood home for decades, and it
served as the background for some of her famous modeling pictures. But over
time it had become dilapidated, exposed in some places to the elements.
Susan Savage, an actress, went to check on Vickers after noticing old letters
and cobwebs in her elderly neighbor's mailbox.
"The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow," Savage said. "I
just had a bad feeling."
After pushing open a barricaded front gate and scaling a hillside, Savage
peered through a broken window with another piece of glass taped over the hole.
She decided to enter the house after seeing a shock of blond hair, which turned
out to be a wig.
The inside of the home was in disrepair and it was hard to move through the
rooms because boxes containing what appeared to be clothes, junk mail and
letters formed barriers, Savage said. Eventually, she made her way upstairs and
found a room with a small space heater still on.
She was looking at a cordless phone that appeared to have been knocked off its
cradle when she first saw the body on the floor, she said. Savage had known
Vickers but the remains were unrecognizable, she said.
She remembered her neighbor as an elegant women in a broad straw hat, dressed
in white, with flowing blond hair and "a warm smile."
"She kept to herself, had friends and seemed like a very independent spirit,"
Savage said. "To the end she still got cards and letter from all over the world
requesting photos and still wanting to be her friend."
Savage said the neighbors felt terrible.
"We've all been crying about this," she said. "Nobody should be left alone like
that."
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