Body of dead man languished in Pa. home for 6 months before ‘distraught’ relatives living there called police

The body of a 64-year-old man decomposed in a Pennsylvania house for roughly six months after a pair of relatives who lived in the residence failed to report his death until last week — shockingly claiming they were unaware he had died, police said.

Michael Bebout was found dead in his bed inside a hoarder house filled with animal feces last Thursday by Washington County authorities in Canton Township after the loved ones alerted police, Greene County Regional Police Chief William DeForte said.

“[An officer] gets there and he’s greeted by the brother of the decedent … and the brother comes out and he’s all distraught and he says that he spent the night there last night and woke up and realized his brother’s dead,” DeForte told The Post Wednesday.   

Based on the state of the body, it appears Bebout was dead for around six months, according to the chief.

The home where Bebout’s brother and sister-in-law had been staying was filled with dog feces on the floor and piles of trash tossed around, he said.

“You wouldn’t have noticed from the outside,” DeForte said. “The inside was certainly compacted with trash and refuse and the floor was coated wall to wall with dog feces. Needless to say, the odors weren’t very pleasant.”

The couple lives a somewhat transient lifestyle, but the filthy house has been their main residence, he added.

While the loved ones claim they were unaware their relative had been dead since the summer, DeForte said authorities are not buying that assertion.

No foul play is suspected, but authorities are probing if checks made out to Bebout were illegally cashed after his death. An investigation into the deceased man’s finances is ongoing.