Sister charged over death of obese woman left to rot in chair

When ambulance crews responded to a 911 call they found 61-year-old Priscilla Frieberger, who was morbidly obese, stuck to her chair in a state of decomposition. Her sister,whom she lived with, has been charged with neglect and reckless homicide.

An Indiana woman has been charged over the death of her morbidly obese sister who spent the last three weeks of her life stuck in a chair, rotting to death. Priscilla Frieberger, 61, was found with her skin stuck to a brown recliner chair when her sister, Vickie Holdcraft, 58, with whom she shared a home, called 911 for help at Friedberger's request. Frieberger subsequently died in hospital of a blood infection and pneumonia, after an ambulance crew removed her from the house in Willow Creek, Lawrenceburg. According to the Daily Mail the ambulance crew could not get the dying woman down the stairs and had to break a window to rescue her. The Guardian reported that prosecuters in Dearbon County indicted Holdraft on charges of reckless homicide, neglect and perjury. Prosecutor Aaron Negangard said that Frieberger had "been in this chair at least three weeks, and she was starting to decompose. She had several parts of the body in a state of decomposition, especially the posterior where she was sitting. There was an odour of decomposing flesh in the room." The sisters were apparently very close though according to News Cincinnati, which described them as best friends. They had worked together in the Dearborn County Administration Building until Frieberger retired after 40 years of service.