Disturbed Hoarder 'Stole Cadaver Pads From Funeral Home,' Reveals Expert

Oct. 16 2012, Published 5:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
After helping countless hoarders dig their way out of the mountains of trash and junk, a psychologist thought she had seen it all – until she met a woman with a bizarre obsession with mortuaries.
"I recently went to a home where the woman was a dumpster-diver into every trash can in a small town, to the point where they had to put locks on them to keep her out," explained Dr. Becky Beaton, psychologist and clinical expert on TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.
"She would do it at a funeral home and gather pads that were used for cadavers to absorb the fluids and was bringing them home and putting them on the floor so that the dog could go to the bathroom on them – it was disgusting!" revealed Dr. Beaton, as she described her worst case to date.
Like many sufferers, a lot of times there are mental illnesses that accompany the hoarding. In this case, "she was bipolar and it had gone on for so long that she had become disillusioned."
When it comes to treating the condition, experts have to treat both the desire to hoard and pr