Skeletons

Read Jennifer 8. Lee's story: Paul Iversen had not seen his aging parents in three years, even though their homes are but a mile apart in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. They had a falling out around the summer of 2003.

But he missed them, and recently called his mother to reconcile.

So yesterday, he returned home. His mother, Joanne, 73, had sad news for him: His father was dead.

She then led him to a bedroom, where, the police said, the skeletal remains of a body lay in the bed, covered with a blanket.