NECEDAH, Wis. (AP) -- Friends and family of the 90-year-old woman whose remains were found on a toilet in a house said they warned her not to move to the area from Washington state.
But in the fall of 2005, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth ignored that advice, sold her house and moved to Necedah.
Father Michael OBrien is pastor of St. Mary of the Valley, a Catholic church in Monroe, Washington, where Middlesworth had been a parishioner for years. He says people refused to believe warnings that she was getting involved with a cult.
A sheriff's deputy discovered her remains in a house she shared with a woman and two children last week. That woman, 35-year-old Tammy Lewis, and 57-year-old Alan Bushey have been charged with two felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child. Lewis was also charged with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor.
Middlesworth's sister, 89-year-old Marcelle Stein, says her sister was religious, generous and gullible.