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Woman Buys Apartment, Finds Previous Owner Dead Inside

Here's something not for the weak of stomach: in Lisbon, Portugal, a woman bought an apartment only to arrive on moving day to find the rotting corpse of the previous owner on the kitchen floor. Eighty-eight-year-old Augusta Martinho had gone missing in 2002; three months after she disappeared a worried neighbor called the police, who attempted unsuccessfully to break down the door. What! [Daily Mail]