Our five senses are wonderful to have and the loss of any one of them is a terrible thing. I would put the loss of my eyesight at the top of the list and my sense of smell at the bottom, but I definitely don’t want to lose either one. Unfortunately for Eugene Pilouw of Harlingen, Texas, who lost his sense of smell due to diabetes, that was the one sense he needed the most.

Mr. Pilouw’s wife had been missing for three days, and after finding $250 missing, he assumed she’d run away from home again. Since he had no idea how long she would be gone, he decided to give their cats away, because he couldn’t care for them alone. The couple’s daughter wanted one of the cats and stopped by to pick it up, but her sense of smell was fine and when she entered a storeroom at the back to investigate an unpleasant odor, she was surprised to find that her mother was home after all. Unfortunately, she was dead and had been that way for three days.

Initial autopsy results were inconclusive and police are waiting on toxicology results to determine the cause of death. I’m going to give Eugene the benefit of the doubt here and assume that if he’d murdered his wife, the loss of his sense of smell wouldn’t have affected his ability to conclude that you don’t leave the body in the house.

Source: Houston Chronicle

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