On March 21st, 1947, the 22nd Police Precinct received a phone call from an anonymous tipster informing them of a dead body in a house belonging to Homer Collyer and Langley Collyer. Upon investigation, officers found themselves faced with the Herculean task of sifting through decades of hoarded stuff to try and find the occupants of the house, or at least what was left of them.
The story of the Collyer brothers is a tragic one. The siblings came from a rich and affluent family, both studied and earned degrees in different fields and in 1923, they lost their father, leaving them with a big empty house in New York.
