The two persons found dead in a Toledo home on Ventura Drive have been identified as 74-year-old Jaenette Harper, and her brother, 60-year-old Sylvester Harper.
Officials told WNWO that the house can be referred to as a hoarders home.
"People who hoard have a tendency to form emotional attachments to objects, and isolate from others," says Addiction Specialist Dawn Kluck of Unison Behavioral Health Group.
In this case, the objects in the home were reported to be covering every cold-air return vent in the house except one. This falls in line with typical hoarding behavior according to Kluck.
"There's paths from room to room often. And in worse case, crawling on top of objects to get from room to room," explains Kluck.
Neighbors say they rarely see the siblings come out of the house except to go to the mailbox. One neighbor said she did give them a ride to the doctor before, because they don;t have a car. Everyone was shocked to hear about the hoarding.
This obsessive compulsive disorder is much worse than some may think. In this case, it may have resulted in death.
Kluck says, "It is dangerous because it poses a threat to a person in their own home."
Though the full extent of this hoarding is unclear, experts say a person might be a hoarder and neighbors may never have any idea.
"It is a hidden disorder in that people are embarrassed by a loved one that may do this," explains Dawn Kluck.
Police also told WNWO that the home had a faulty furnace. It reportedly had no shut-off sensor, and continuously pumped hot air into the home making the temperature over a hundred degrees.
An autopsy was performed and the deceased are being checked for carbon monoxide levels. That report is likely to take a few weeks.
The pair were also said to have ongoing medical issues. Until the carbon monoxide test come back, the exact cause of death can not be determined.
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