Woa! I wonder how far a body has decomposed after 8 days...
Still, I hear tales of adult children hiding their dead parents so as to continue to collect old age pensions and such. Maybe they tried to do that but the daughter couldn't handle it after a week and called the cops?
I wouldn't want to find out, mate! I remember it's like one of the article you wrote a while back featuring several psychopaths. Well, I lived next door to three! And then two...
Maybe the smell became too intoxicating... :(