Prayer vs. Decay

So, police found a dead 90-year-old woman sitting on the toilet of a Necedah, Wisconsin home. Not to unusual, I admit. When you're 90, things can happen. However, this particular 90-year-old, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth, had been sitting on said toilet for two months. Oh, and the house was also shared by a mother and her two teenage children. Details are sketchy (and gross, frankly), but it appears as if the mother, Tammy Lewis, and Middlesworth (who was also known as Sister Mary Bernadett) belonged to a cult led by self-proclaimed bishop Alan Bushey (pronounced boo-SHAY for extra comedy value). Turns out Bishop Bushey told Lewis that a regimine of prayers could bring Middlesworth back to life. Of course, there's no prayer powerful enough to cover the stench of a decaying body, and when Lewis' children complained about both the corpse in their home and the fact that they couldn't use the toilet anymore, Bushey explained that demons were trying to make it look as if Middlesworth wasn't coming back to life. Police described the corpse as a "pile" of "matter". Lewis and Bushey have been charged with psychologically abusing children and, I'm sure, a host of other things. More details here.