An unfortunate way to go, but we all die sometime. I looked at the pictures of her as a young Playmate. What a babe!! I'd have bought dances from her. RIP Yvette.
Mummified Playboy Playmate died of heart failure
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A former Playboy Playmate whose mummified body was found in her dilapidated Beverly Hills home last month, died of heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
Yvette Vickers, a B-movie actress who was named Playboy's Miss July in 1959, was found dead at her home on April 27 after evidently being undiscovered for up to a year.
Joyce Kato, an investigator with the Los Angeles county coroner's department, told the Times she died of natural causes "due to arterial sclerotic cardiovascular disease," or heart disease caused by a hardening of the arteries.
Several calls made to the coroner's office to confirm the report went unanswered on Saturday.
A neighbor found Vickers' body after her suspicions were aroused by old letters and cobwebs in the mailbox. The house was packed with boxes, and at least one window was broken. A space heater was running in the upstairs room where the body was lying on the floor
Vickers, born Yvette Vedder in Kansas City, Missouri, would have been 82 when her body was found. She was briefly married twice during the 1950s.
Her film credits include 1958's "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" and 1959's "Attack of the Giant Leeches." Her last feature role was in a 1990 horror called "Evil Spirits."
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last commentI searched for her in Google images. She was a nice looking woman in her prime.
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Out of curiosity, how does a body become mummified in an otherwise normal decay process as I assume that this was? Did the room stay exceptionally warm due to the space heater, thus drying the corpse rapidly?
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I've heard of situations like that, mmdv26. If the room remains warm and relatively dry, augmented by the heat from a space heater, mummification can occur. It's sad that it took a year for her to be discovered.
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A couple of years back I pulled a china hutch back from the wall for painting and I found a mummified mouse behind it. No telling how long it had been back there.
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I hear she was King Tut's ATF.
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Do you suppose several years ago she chose a trade-off whereby she would be a bunny and a pin-up model, but the downside was she would die alone and mummified?
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