Billie Jean James, 67, went missing last April 22, 2010.  A massive search of the Las Vegas desert where the victim lived yielded nothing.  Family and friends even created a Facebook page and offered a $10,000 reward.

Billie Jean is described as a peace activist who loved hiking, camping and the arts.

Four months after Billie Jean disappeared her husband of forty years, Bill James, discovered her body under her piles of collected items.  Not even the sniffer dogs used by the police, which have the credits of being used in the 9/11 attack and hurricane Katrina, were able to sniff her body in her house which has her hoarded items of clothes, knickknacks, decomposing trash and other junk piled from floor to ceiling.

Bill James is asking people not to criticize his wife.

Compulsive hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things even if the items are worthless, hazardous or unsanitary.  This is thought to belong to the range of obsessive-compulsive disorders and affects every one of all ages.  Affected people soon become aware of this tendency and are overwhelmed to do anything about it.

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