ELDERLY WOMAN HAD TEA WITH THE CORPSES OF HER HUSBAND AND SISTER. AFTER HER DEATH, HER FINAL RESTING PLACE IS QUESTIONED. (PHOTO).

 Elderly Woman Had Tea with the Corpses of Her Husband and Sister. After Her Death, Her Final Resting Place Is Questioned

What began as a routine welfare check in a quiet Pennsylvania town soon turned into a discovery that investigators say they will never forget.

In the small borough of Wyalusing, criminal investigator David Pelachick visited the home of 91 year old Jean Stevens in 2010 after hearing curious reports about her living situation.

Stevens welcomed the officer inside and even offered him something to eat. Afterward, she led him to the living room where a woman lay on the couch.

Pelachick later recalled the moment during an episode of the Investigation Discovery series The Curious Case Of.... The episode titled The Corpse Who Came to Dinner revisits the unusual case.

“Looked like she had a wig on,” he said in the documentary. “I remember lipstick being on her.”

When the investigator asked why the woman was there, Stevens calmly explained that it was her twin sister, June.

“Well, I like talking to her,” Stevens reportedly told him. “She’s my twin sister. I’ve been with her my entire life.”

There was one troubling detail. June had been de@d for months.

Realizing the situation was far from ordinary, Pelachick contacted other officials. Investigator Al Ogden and coroner Tom Carman soon arrived at the house to assess what was happening.

Carman later remembered the overwhelming smell inside the home. “The aroma alone,” he said in the documentary, noting that no amount of perfume could disguise it.

During the visit, Ogden raised another rumor circulating in town, that Stevens’ husband might also be in the house. Her husband, James Stevens, had passed away years earlier in 1999.

Stevens confirmed the story and led investigators outside to a garage across the street. Inside, under various items stacked on top, they found the remains of her husband.

When asked why her sister was kept inside the home while her husband was in the garage, Carman recalled Stevens offering a simple explanation.

“Well, I love June more,” she said.

Over time, investigators came to believe that some people around Stevens likely knew about the situation but chose not to speak about it.

A local resident, Jeff Smith, shared his thoughts during the documentary. “It didn’t hurt anyone,” he said. “I actually wish they just could’ve left her alone.”

The documentary also explores how Stevens managed to bring the b@dies of her relatives back to her property.

In the case of her husband, Stevens had first followed legal steps to exhume him from a cemetery. According to the program, she wanted to place a hat on his head and slippers on his feet so he would stay warm. After he was reburied, she later dug him up again with help from others and returned his remains to her home.

Her sister’s case unfolded differently. Stevens’ nephew, Doron Antrim, helped designate part of the property as an official cemetery so June could be buried there.

However, according to Antrim’s partner Kate Prager, she believes he may have suspected what Stevens intended to do later.

In October 2009, a neighbor reportedly helped move June’s body from the burial site back into the house.

Prager also described a visit to Stevens’ home where she sat at the table drinking tea while the remains of both relatives were nearby.

“Jean was quite forthcoming about Jimmy,” she said, referring to Stevens’ husband. According to Prager, Stevens mentioned that parts of his body were beginning to come apart.

Despite the unsettling circumstances, Prager described Stevens with a sense of familiarity. “This was our dear Aunt Jean,” she said. “She’s a little unusual.”

The documentary also raises questions about whether financial interests played a role in the silence around Stevens’ actions. Legal analyst Beth Karas noted that Stevens’ land was believed to sit on an oil reserve, significantly increasing its value.