North Jersey Hoarder Found Partially Mummified Among Trash, Animal Feces

Relatives said she was a hoarder.

Robert Kornhaber treats the disorder from his practice in Fort Lee and said it’s often hard for neighbors and relatives to help.

“Hoarding is an obsessive-compulsive disorder,” Dr. Kornhaber told WCBS 880’s Levon Putney on Wednesday.

The Bergen County woman lived alone and was reported missing after she failed to pay her February rent.

“Checking on them will not change anything. Hoarders are very resistant to simply advice or recommendation,” Kornhaber told Putney. “Nine times out of 10, I say to the person ‘please have the hoarder call me.’ They never call.”

Kornhaber said hoarders typically do not reach out for help until the condition puts their life at risk.

“Many people who go for help are forced to by health officials, fire departments,” Kornhaber said. “In almost all cases, it takes the act of intervention of a therapist or hoarding specialist who actually really has to come by and visit to get results.”

Klee died of cardiac arrest, police said.

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