Friday, June 15, 2007
Why was body left in a tub for three days? - Robert Jamieson, P-I columnist
The story of the lady in the bathtub remains a mystery in which the circumstances of her death -- left alone in a tub full of cold water -- are as hazy as her life.
She is 47-year-old Phyllis Buchert, authorities told me Monday. She departed this world in late May in a way that evokes an ineffable sadness, and makes a city shake its head at the limits of human caring.
Shouldn't the man who invited her to his Lake City apartment have done something more when he found her not moving and unresponsive?
Police said instead he downed booze and ignored her in the tub for three long days. Detectives have interviewed the man -- a Seattle construction worker who invited the woman to his home after they met at a bus stop. ...
The story of the lady in the bathtub remains a mystery in which the circumstances of her death -- left alone in a tub full of cold water -- are as hazy as her life.
She is 47-year-old Phyllis Buchert, authorities told me Monday. She departed this world in late May in a way that evokes an ineffable sadness, and makes a city shake its head at the limits of human caring.
Shouldn't the man who invited her to his Lake City apartment have done something more when he found her not moving and unresponsive?
Police said instead he downed booze and ignored her in the tub for three long days. Detectives have interviewed the man -- a Seattle construction worker who invited the woman to his home after they met at a bus stop. ...
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