November 7, 2025 • 8 mins
A foreclosure auction led to a grim discovery in a Texas townhome where neighbors noticed warning signs but never knocked on the door.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm darn Marler, and this is weird dark news. There's
a townhome complex in Addison, Texas called the Homes of
Addison Place. The town homes were built back in nineteen
eighty three, so it's one of those established neighborhoods where
people have lived for years, where you'd think everyone at
least knows who their neighbors are. And at seventeen one
eighteen Planter's Row, there was a sixty nine year old
(00:32):
woman named Pauline Williams who lived in one of the
corner units. Something had been off for a while. The
mail had been piling up in her mailbox for weeks.
The local mail carrier had definitely noticed. The sideyard was
completely overgrown with weeds. The homeowners Association kept sending notices
about past dues and they just kept going unanswered. Gary
(00:53):
McIntyre lived right next door to Williams, and he saw
all of this happening, so did the other neighbors. The
warning signs were all there, but nobody knocked on her door,
nobody called for a wellness check, nobody did anything. William's
home went into foreclosure. She was listed as the owner
in default on her bank loan. The foreclosure process moved
(01:14):
forward with its paperwork and its procedures and its timelines.
There are notices sent, documents filed, legal requirements checked off.
On October twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, the property was
sold at a Dallas County auction. A foreclosure happened, a
property changed hands. All the legal machinery worked exactly as
it's supposed to. Someone bought the house, someone got the keys.
(01:36):
The transaction was complete. The next day, Wednesday, October twenty ninth,
the Addison Police Department got a call for a welfare
check at the home of the seventeen hundred block of
Planner's Row. The new homeowner had gone to the property
his property now, and when he walked in, he immediately
smelled something wrong. He didn't go any further, He left
the house and called the police. When officers entered the resident,
(02:00):
they found the body of an elderly woman who had
clearly been deceased for some time. Pauline Williams was lying
on the living room carpet, just a few feet from
the front door, not in the back bedroom, not hidden
away somewhere. She was right there, near the entrance to
her home. Police believe Williams may have been dead inside
her home for several weeks, potentially even several months. The
(02:25):
Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office is working to determine the
cause of death, though they noted it takes about sixty
to ninety days before a cause and manner of death
can be determined. Police have stated there is no reason
to believe there's any ongoing threat to the public. She'd
been there the whole time, while the male accumulated, while
the grass grew tall, while the HOA sent their notices,
(02:48):
while the foreclosure paperwork moved through the system, while the
auction happened, while somebody bought her house and prepared to
take possession of their new property. There are some troubling
questions about how this happened. How does supportclosure proceed so
quickly without someone trying to physically contact the homeowner or
even knock on the door before the home is sold
(03:10):
at auction. Standard for closure procedures are supposed to include
multiple attempts at contact. There are certified letters that have
to be sent. There are legal requirements about notification. Often
there are supposed to be in person verifications that a
property is actually vacant before it can be sold. These
aren't optional steps. They're part of the legal process designed
(03:32):
to protect homeowners from losing their properties without having every
opportunity to respond. William's home wasn't vacant, Her body was
just feet from the entrance. The mailbox was overflowing with
accumulated mail. The yard showed obvious signs of neglect that
only comes with the passage of time. The HOA had
(03:52):
been sending notices about financial issues, the exact kind of
thing that should trigger some form of welfare check or
personal contact. County officials haven't provided any additional details about
what verification procedures were followed, if any. The loan companies
involved havn't responded to requests for comment, so right now
there is an enormous gap in understanding how the entire system,
(04:15):
both the foreclosure process and the neighborhood community failed to
catch what was happening. Austin Matthews, another resident in the area,
talked about how the discovery affected him. The situation made
him think about checking on neighbors more often, about making
more of an effort to be friendly and stay connected.
Because this is the scenario, people fear that something could
(04:35):
happen to you, and nobody would notice until it was
far too late. Gary McIntyre, who lived right next door
to Williams, has been open about his regret. He has
said multiple times that it's regrettable that he and the
other neighbors didn't check on her. All those signs were there.
The overflowing mailbox was not subtle. The overgrown yard wasn't
easy to miss. The silence from a home that should
(04:57):
have had lights going on and off, should have had
sign of daily life. That absence was noticeable. Each of
those things was an alarm. The mail piling up, the
weeds taking over, the unanswered notices, the complete lack of
anty sign that somebody was living there. And somehow all
of those alarms just became part of the background noise
of daily life, somebody else's problem, something that wasn't quite
(05:19):
urgent enough to act on. The Addison Place HOA board
sent out a letter to all the homeowners confirming William's death.
They asked her residents to respect the privacy of William's
family and the new homeowner during this time, and thanked
everyone for their understanding and compassion toward one another as neighbors.
The letter acknowledges the difficulty of the situation, but it
(05:39):
also sits there as a document of something that went
wrong in a community that's supposed to look out for
its own. Addison Police investigators are now searching for Williams
next of kin, trying to find out why no one
seemed to know she was deceased. Williams was sixty nine
years old. She had a home in an established neighborhood.
She had people living on either side of her. She
was part of a homeowners association. She existed within systems,
(06:03):
financial systems, neighborhood systems, postal systems that should have created
some kind of safety net, and yet weeks went by,
possibly months. The current estimate is that she could have
been deceased for several months before any one founder. That
is not a gap of a few days where maybe
someone was traveling or sick. That's seasons changing, that's holidays passing.
(06:26):
That's a length of time that raises questions about how
isolated we've become, even when we're living right next to
each other. The Medical Examiner's Office is still working to
determine not just how Williams died, but when every piece
of evidence they process, every analysis they run is another
data point in reconstructing the timeline of how long she
lay there in her living room, just feet from a
(06:48):
door that neighbors walked past, just feet from a threshold
that could have been crossed if someone had knocked. The
Addison Police Department has stated that the investigation is still ongoing.
There's still gathering information, still trying to piece together the
full picture of what happened and why it went unnoticed
for so long. The medical examiner continues the detailed work
(07:08):
of determining cause and time of death. The search for
William's family continues. The questions about the foreclosure process remain unanswered.
The new homeowner is left to process the trauma of
what they found in their newly purchased property. The neighbors
are left with their regret and the realization that they
missed something critical. The community is left examining what it
means to be neighbors in a world where you can
(07:30):
live right next to someone and have no idea they've
been gone for months. The case file will eventually close,
The medical examiner will issue their findings, The property will
presumably be cleaned and eventually occupied again. Williams was found
October twenty ninth, twenty twenty five, but the timeline of
her death remains under investigation. The physical evidence tells part
(07:52):
of the story, the accumulated male, the overgrown yard, the
body found just feet from the entrance. What it doesn't
tell is why no one acted on those signs sooner,
or how the foreclosure proceeded to completion without anybody physically
verifying the property's status. If you'd like to read this
story for yourself or share the article with a friend,
(08:13):
you can read it on the Weird Darkness website. I've
placed a link to it in the episode description, and
you can find more stories of the paranormal, true crime, strange,
and more, including numerous stories that never make it to
the podcast, at Weirddarkness dot com slash news
I'm darn Marler, and this is weird dark news. There's
a townhome complex in Addison, Texas called the Homes of
Addison Place. The town homes were built back in nineteen
eighty three, so it's one of those established neighborhoods where
people have lived for years, where you'd think everyone at
least knows who their neighbors are. And at seventeen one
eighteen Planter's Row, there was a sixty nine year old
(00:32):
woman named Pauline Williams who lived in one of the
corner units. Something had been off for a while. The
mail had been piling up in her mailbox for weeks.
The local mail carrier had definitely noticed. The sideyard was
completely overgrown with weeds. The homeowners Association kept sending notices
about past dues and they just kept going unanswered. Gary
(00:53):
McIntyre lived right next door to Williams, and he saw
all of this happening, so did the other neighbors. The
warning signs were all there, but nobody knocked on her door,
nobody called for a wellness check, nobody did anything. William's
home went into foreclosure. She was listed as the owner
in default on her bank loan. The foreclosure process moved
(01:14):
forward with its paperwork and its procedures and its timelines.
There are notices sent, documents filed, legal requirements checked off.
On October twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, the property was
sold at a Dallas County auction. A foreclosure happened, a
property changed hands. All the legal machinery worked exactly as
it's supposed to. Someone bought the house, someone got the keys.
(01:36):
The transaction was complete. The next day, Wednesday, October twenty ninth,
the Addison Police Department got a call for a welfare
check at the home of the seventeen hundred block of
Planner's Row. The new homeowner had gone to the property
his property now, and when he walked in, he immediately
smelled something wrong. He didn't go any further, He left
the house and called the police. When officers entered the resident,
(02:00):
they found the body of an elderly woman who had
clearly been deceased for some time. Pauline Williams was lying
on the living room carpet, just a few feet from
the front door, not in the back bedroom, not hidden
away somewhere. She was right there, near the entrance to
her home. Police believe Williams may have been dead inside
her home for several weeks, potentially even several months. The
(02:25):
Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office is working to determine the
cause of death, though they noted it takes about sixty
to ninety days before a cause and manner of death
can be determined. Police have stated there is no reason
to believe there's any ongoing threat to the public. She'd
been there the whole time, while the male accumulated, while
the grass grew tall, while the HOA sent their notices,
(02:48):
while the foreclosure paperwork moved through the system, while the
auction happened, while somebody bought her house and prepared to
take possession of their new property. There are some troubling
questions about how this happened. How does supportclosure proceed so
quickly without someone trying to physically contact the homeowner or
even knock on the door before the home is sold
(03:10):
at auction. Standard for closure procedures are supposed to include
multiple attempts at contact. There are certified letters that have
to be sent. There are legal requirements about notification. Often
there are supposed to be in person verifications that a
property is actually vacant before it can be sold. These
aren't optional steps. They're part of the legal process designed
(03:32):
to protect homeowners from losing their properties without having every
opportunity to respond. William's home wasn't vacant, Her body was
just feet from the entrance. The mailbox was overflowing with
accumulated mail. The yard showed obvious signs of neglect that
only comes with the passage of time. The HOA had
(03:52):
been sending notices about financial issues, the exact kind of
thing that should trigger some form of welfare check or
personal contact. County officials haven't provided any additional details about
what verification procedures were followed, if any. The loan companies
involved havn't responded to requests for comment, so right now
there is an enormous gap in understanding how the entire system,
(04:15):
both the foreclosure process and the neighborhood community failed to
catch what was happening. Austin Matthews, another resident in the area,
talked about how the discovery affected him. The situation made
him think about checking on neighbors more often, about making
more of an effort to be friendly and stay connected.
Because this is the scenario, people fear that something could
(04:35):
happen to you, and nobody would notice until it was
far too late. Gary McIntyre, who lived right next door
to Williams, has been open about his regret. He has
said multiple times that it's regrettable that he and the
other neighbors didn't check on her. All those signs were there.
The overflowing mailbox was not subtle. The overgrown yard wasn't
easy to miss. The silence from a home that should
(04:57):
have had lights going on and off, should have had
sign of daily life. That absence was noticeable. Each of
those things was an alarm. The mail piling up, the
weeds taking over, the unanswered notices, the complete lack of
anty sign that somebody was living there. And somehow all
of those alarms just became part of the background noise
of daily life, somebody else's problem, something that wasn't quite
(05:19):
urgent enough to act on. The Addison Place HOA board
sent out a letter to all the homeowners confirming William's death.
They asked her residents to respect the privacy of William's
family and the new homeowner during this time, and thanked
everyone for their understanding and compassion toward one another as neighbors.
The letter acknowledges the difficulty of the situation, but it
(05:39):
also sits there as a document of something that went
wrong in a community that's supposed to look out for
its own. Addison Police investigators are now searching for Williams
next of kin, trying to find out why no one
seemed to know she was deceased. Williams was sixty nine
years old. She had a home in an established neighborhood.
She had people living on either side of her. She
was part of a homeowners association. She existed within systems,
(06:03):
financial systems, neighborhood systems, postal systems that should have created
some kind of safety net, and yet weeks went by,
possibly months. The current estimate is that she could have
been deceased for several months before any one founder. That
is not a gap of a few days where maybe
someone was traveling or sick. That's seasons changing, that's holidays passing.
(06:26):
That's a length of time that raises questions about how
isolated we've become, even when we're living right next to
each other. The Medical Examiner's Office is still working to
determine not just how Williams died, but when every piece
of evidence they process, every analysis they run is another
data point in reconstructing the timeline of how long she
lay there in her living room, just feet from a
(06:48):
door that neighbors walked past, just feet from a threshold
that could have been crossed if someone had knocked. The
Addison Police Department has stated that the investigation is still ongoing.
There's still gathering information, still trying to piece together the
full picture of what happened and why it went unnoticed
for so long. The medical examiner continues the detailed work
(07:08):
of determining cause and time of death. The search for
William's family continues. The questions about the foreclosure process remain unanswered.
The new homeowner is left to process the trauma of
what they found in their newly purchased property. The neighbors
are left with their regret and the realization that they
missed something critical. The community is left examining what it
means to be neighbors in a world where you can
(07:30):
live right next to someone and have no idea they've
been gone for months. The case file will eventually close,
The medical examiner will issue their findings, The property will
presumably be cleaned and eventually occupied again. Williams was found
October twenty ninth, twenty twenty five, but the timeline of
her death remains under investigation. The physical evidence tells part
(07:52):
of the story, the accumulated male, the overgrown yard, the
body found just feet from the entrance. What it doesn't
tell is why no one acted on those signs sooner,
or how the foreclosure proceeded to completion without anybody physically
verifying the property's status. If you'd like to read this
story for yourself or share the article with a friend,
(08:13):
you can read it on the Weird Darkness website. I've
placed a link to it in the episode description, and
you can find more stories of the paranormal, true crime, strange,
and more, including numerous stories that never make it to
the podcast, at Weirddarkness dot com slash news
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