Gary and Christin Kelley say the foul odors began a week ago Monday. “Everything naturally goes up, smells like death,” she says. “Permeates kitchen cabinets, everything.”
The Kelleys, who live along the 1000 block of Churchill Street in St. Paul, say that by Thursday, the smell in and around their apartment got so bad, they called the police. “We started smelling this awful smell in our bathroom,” Gary Kelley recalls. “I think at first, thinking it was maybe a rat in a wall. It’s an old house; we got rat problems.”
That’s when officers told the couple their neighbor had passed away…