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Angela Manns’ Neighbors Noticed the Funktified Smell and the Flies

July 15, 2009 by thinkgoat  

Filed under: Child Murder, Crime, Featured 

Omaha, Nebraska “Somewhere in middle AmericaAmerica reviewsAmerica reviews” says Adam Duritz from the Counting Crows. Billed as the Nation’s third best city to live, work, and play, I’m guessing the neighbors in one residential area are questioning that statement now as the police infiltrated their block, cordoned off a house, and began interviewing them as to what they saw and when. There’s one thing about neighbors in a nice “single family dwelling” neighborhood not far from from the Elementary school, they tend to notice stuff like unkempt yards, no trash pick-up, wild parties, flies covering the inside windows of their friend’s home, a smell of rotting flesh…any one or a variation of those things. And since it’s summer, a time for school aged children to be playing outside (or at least being seen outside at some point in time) neighbors of Angela Manns sort of starting thinking something was running wacky when they hadn’t seen her 12 year-old son MichaelMichael reviewsMichael reviews in almost a month.

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Angela Manns

SundaySunday reviewsSunday reviews afternoon police performed a “wellness” check on Angela. The neighbor across the street said, “We haven’t seen no cars come in and out of that driveway, we haven’t seen anybody, no traffic, nothing.” See? Told you neighbors pay attention. But it was at the end of June when they started smelling something funny and started seeing flies swarming in the windows. It was Monday morning when the authorities started hauling out the badly decomposing body and buckets of evidence. Right now the medical examiner cannot identify the gender of the body and naturally, they are awaiting dental records in order to positively identify the remains.

Angela had 4 children. Two were given up for adoption when they were young, and her 17 year-old daughter moved. When interviewed she expressed the fact she had no idea about her brother Michael Belitz’s fate. Michael’s Elementary principal stated he was a very involved and wonderful student, out-going, and his mother was always involved in any and all of his activities. He did find it strange that this spring, Michael took the name of his father, who had never been a part of his life. And although he’s fearing the worse, he’s still holding out hope that it isn’t Michael’s decomposing body found in that house.

Until 2007, Angela Manns worked for the University of Nebraska-Omaha as an administrative assistant but since that time has endured mounting financial problems. She filed for bankruptcy and her home was being foreclosed on. I understand that shit can bring on some pretty heavy stress, and assuming that is her son they hauled out on a gourney and in buckets, come the fuck on. Right now she is in the medical ward at Douglas County Corrections and arrested for murder.

To stay cooped up in a house for a month (she had not been seen since a week after Michael’s disappearance) with a decomposing body is beyond fucked up. I’ve smelled ripe dead bodies. The smell alone will make you puke and rub the vomit on your face so you’ll have something more pleasant to inhale. Seriously. To live with that AND the flies? Somehow, gauging by her mugshot, there’s very little anyone can do to her that will surpass the torment and craziness shown in her eyes.

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  1. Golden.Aurelia
    5:15 am on July 15th, 2009

    She def. has those crazy eyes.

  2. nadine
    5:19 am on July 15th, 2009

    psycho eyes
    WOW
    People will never amaze us huh?

  3. applesnspice
    7:35 am on July 15th, 2009

    ugh…. god… that is just gross. And I hope that isn’t her son there, but if it is may he have the peace where he is now that his mother did not let him have when she killed him.

  4. Jury
    8:11 am on July 15th, 2009

    She looks possessed.

  5. Morbid
    8:24 am on July 15th, 2009

    Holy shit. She’s got the fever for the flavor of a Pringle.

  6. CassieMomma
    8:30 am on July 15th, 2009

    I can’t believe it got to the point that they couldn’t even tell the gender of the body. So wrong. I hope we can get more details soon.

  7. akire
    9:20 am on July 15th, 2009

    Her eyeballs are about to pop out of her head.

  8. nadine
    10:05 am on July 15th, 2009

    We all have the fever for the flavor of a pringle but seriously she is totally fucked up , come on look at her, she is twisted and unstable looking at that. may she rot in hell forever

  9. sarabei
    10:08 am on July 15th, 2009

    I am laying odds that it is Michael…poor thing! She went batshit crazy…God her eyes are creepy as Hell!!!

  10. NJLiLi
    10:33 am on July 15th, 2009

    Her eyeballs are about to pop out of her head.

    Not for nothing but I bet that this woman is suffering from extreme HYPERthyroidism. Untreated it can make one become a maniac.

  11. MadeaBecBec
    10:56 am on July 15th, 2009

    NJLiLi said: Not for nothing but I bet that this woman is suffering from extreme HYPERthyroidism. Untreated it can make one become a maniac.

    Yep, The name for it is Graves Disease, how appropriate….

  12. So Jaded
    11:30 am on July 15th, 2009

    I am soooo gonna start training my eyes to do that! If I ever commit an outrageous crime, my mugshot would rock! Plus, it would probably keep the pesky humans from bugging me in the produce department of the grocery store.

  13. Jury
    12:06 pm on July 15th, 2009

    Maybe she’s talking to the little people.

  14. brainycat
    12:37 pm on July 15th, 2009

    Maybe she’s been suppressing the gag reflex for so long, her tongue has pushed up into her skull forcing her eyeballs to get squeezed out.

    I grew up in the midwest… it gets HOT… cooped up in a house with a rotting corpse? That’s a special kind of hell you’d normally reserve for… well, the kind of freak who would kill their own child.

  15. DarkJuggalo
    12:55 pm on July 15th, 2009

    it would probably keep the pesky humans from bugging me in the produce department of the grocery store.

    Hey they are just admiring the fine melons of yours and wondering where they could get some just as nice.

  16. obsolete
    12:58 pm on July 15th, 2009

    How do we know she killed her son? He might have died accidentally and mom could have snapped when she found him. I know if I found my child dead I would crawl into a special place inside my brain and probably never return. I realize that she was charged with murder but that might just be because the police don’t know exactly what happened yet…. just sayin.

  17. thinkgoat
    1:18 pm on July 15th, 2009

    How do we know she killed her son? He might have died accidentally and mom could have snapped when she found him. I know if I found my child dead I would crawl into a special place inside my brain and probably never return. I realize that she was charged with murder but that might just be because the police don’t know exactly what happened yet…. just sayin.

    Right, the police don’t know what’s happened yet, they don’t know if it’s Michael. That’s why there’s caution exerted when talking about murder…just mentioning she was charged with it. What IS known, for a fact, a rotting pile of human remains were melting into whatever with maggots evolving into flies so quickly they were swarming the windows of the house.

    I wonder if she sat and stared at that shit for so long, her eyes stuck like that. See, our parents were right.

  18. obsolete
    1:32 pm on July 15th, 2009

    Thinkgoat… your lovely description just made me put down my grilled cheese and to be honest I don’t know if I can ever eat one again without that visual popping into my head. Screw Weight Watchers, this website is all I need to curb my hunger.

  19. DarkPrincess
    2:09 pm on July 15th, 2009

    There’s a reason the daughter moved away so young.

  20. malq
    2:21 pm on July 15th, 2009

    i don’t get the mentality of leaving a body lay in your house. Deal with it. take it out to sea or bury it. Seriously, that would be a bitch watching american idol with blowflies on the scree. putrification is designed to keep you away

  21. jmm0113
    2:52 pm on July 15th, 2009

    If you read the article in CNN correctly….the 3rd best city is PAPILLION, NE. Not OMAHA, NE. PAPILLION is not the same as OMAHA. Yes NEBRASKA does have more than 1 city!

  22. bmcvey
    4:46 pm on July 15th, 2009

    Update: The mother has been charged officially in the murder of her son… so police have details not yet being released at this time. Hopefully she’s unable to plead some form of insanity, but living with a rotting corpse for so long I wouldn’t be surprised if her attorney tries pulling that tired card.

  23. thinkgoat
    5:00 pm on July 15th, 2009

    If you read the article in CNN correctly….the 3rd best city is PAPILLION, NE. Not OMAHA, NE. PAPILLION is not the same as OMAHA. Yes NEBRASKA does have more than 1 city!

    The “third best city” info is not sourced by CNN. (I did reference that material) Actually, typing Omaha, NE into the search engine didn’t result in any CNN hits on the first try. Man, Anderson Cooper is gonna have a ratings decline because of that blunder.

  24. thinkgoat
    5:04 pm on July 15th, 2009

    Thanks for the info bmcvey!

  25. Rotten Apple
    5:23 pm on July 15th, 2009

    If you read the article in CNN correctly….the 3rd best city is PAPILLION, NE. Not OMAHA, NE. PAPILLION is not the same as OMAHA. Yes NEBRASKA does have more than 1 city!

    Are you serious? You read THIS article and THAT is what stood out enough for you to comment on?

    Fuuuuuck. If you get pissy about a city in Nebraska not being acknowledged when there is a dead kid rotting in a house, you have become way too desensitized. Take a break.

  26. shadowman
    5:34 pm on July 15th, 2009

    Maybe she’s getting her mugshot and her body cavity search at the same time?

  27. Uvgottabkiddin
    2:28 am on July 16th, 2009

    How do we know she killed her son? He might have died accidentally and mom could have snapped when she found him.

    welcome obsolete!!!
    you’ve obviously just gotten here =)

    I know that we should give ole bug eyes the benefit of the doubt… but I know better.

  28. ReDDs
    4:09 am on July 16th, 2009

    she looks like she had a whole month to put up that crazy demeanor and hope that she not fit to stand trial…….. she faking
    R.I.P Micheal or whoever got they life taking away so sadly

  29. Dakota Valkyrie
    3:06 pm on July 16th, 2009

    Uh oh! There were red flags.

    Continuing an effort she started last year, Angela Manns’ oldest daughter e-mailed a state caseworker on June 23rd to beg for help for her 12-year-old half-brother.

    “I know that mom did want to put Michael (our youngest brother) in foster care,” she wrote. “And I still feel that there should be someone to look into how the home life is.”

    Family members said in interviews this week that they tried to alert HHS officials about their concerns for Michael Belitz’s well-being. Manns’ alcohol abuse, erratic behavior and temper had the family worried that Michael wasn’t safe.

    But, family members said, they received no substantial response from state child services officials.
    [...]

    Read the Full Article

  30. Dakota Valkyrie
    4:05 pm on July 16th, 2009

    Twelve-year-old Michael Belitz’s wrists were bound together, tightly, with duct tape.

    His legs, too — just below the knees.

    Those details, along with allegations of a cover-up of the death, were part of the reason that Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine filed first-degree murder charges.
    [...]

    In the bathroom of the home, investigators found a short-handled hatchet, a knife, goggles and two buckets with plastic liners. However, it did not appear that the body had been dismembered, Kleine said.

    While Kleine released some information on the ongoing investigation, he said he didn’t have an answer for two major aspects of the case — the reason for Angela Manns’ alleged actions and Michael’s cause of death. Kleine said coroner’s physicians are awaiting toxicology reports and other test results.

    Kleine said the body was so far decomposed that it might not yield evidence of a specific cause of death.
    [...]

    Decomposition experts determined that Michael had been dead for at least two weeks, Kleine said.

    Friends said they had not heard from, or seen, Michael since mid-June.

    On Sunday, Omaha police responded to a 911 call and found a severely decomposed body in the tub of the family’s first-floor bathroom, located between the bedrooms of Michael and his mother.

    There, Kleine said, investigators found evidence of a planned cover-up.

    Kitty litter had been spread over the child’s body to try to mask the smell.

    A garbage bag covered part of the body, and other garbage bags were in the bathroom. A shower curtain was found on the floor in front of the bathtub.

    “There was evidence that she was going to try do something with the body — move it or hide it,” Kleine said.

    Manns pulled up to the house Sunday to find police there, Kleine said.

    She then tried to drive away, but Omaha police caught up to her and took her into custody.

    Full Article

    I might “snap” if I find my kid dead, but I doubt he’d be duct taped up and doubt I would try to get rid of the body myself.

  31. obsolete
    5:00 pm on July 16th, 2009

    I don’t know how to do the quote thingie but I wanted to say thanks for the welcome Uvgottabkiddin. I’ve been pervin for a long time but didn’t start commenting until recently.

    This story pisses me off. I like my made up version better. I was hoping that mom found her son dead and couldn’t stand the thought of him being taken away so she tried to keep him home with her. Not that I think that kind of behavior is normal or anything but it’s a better alternative to what actually happened. The one time I left myself think optimistically (is that a word?)and I turn out to be wrong… I hate her even more now.

  32. nicki
    6:46 pm on July 16th, 2009

    In court Thursday, the court-appointed defense attorney stated that Manns herself had contacted Child Protective Services, saying, “She’s afraid something bad would happen to her or her child if she didn’t receive help.”

    http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/50969992.html

  33. thinkgoat
    7:24 pm on July 16th, 2009

    Thanks DV and Nicki for the updates.

  34. eliz1bef
    9:57 pm on July 16th, 2009

    WOW. Nicki, that just makes my heart break. She’s insane, she knows it, she tried to get help and was denied. That’s just so messed up.

    Thanks to you and DV for the updates.

  35. soldierswifey
    1:33 am on July 17th, 2009

    I think she just got a good glimpse of what hell looks like.

  36. Dakota Valkyrie
    9:22 pm on July 17th, 2009

    Phone tag.

    An Omaha woman charged in the death of her 12-year-old son had called a child-abuse caseworker in March to ask about placing the boy in foster care.
    [...]

    Health and Human Services said Manns left a message at the end of March asking about foster care and other options. The agency says a caseworker called back and left a message but didn’t hear back from Manns.

    Source

    So sad. I would have just walked in and dropped my kid off. The hell with phone calls.

  37. MadeaBecBec
    9:13 am on July 18th, 2009

    I wonder of Angela Manns and Banita Jacks are relatives???

    Michael had so much potential to overcome his childhood and become something greater, to possibly see after his addicted bio-donor as she got older! Senseless, just senseless!
    Rest in Heavens Peace, Michael….

  38. Dakota Valkyrie
    1:52 pm on October 13th, 2009

    “It’s going to be a rough Christmas,” Leonard Belitz said after a court hearing today. “It won’t stop being rough until it’s done and over with, and I can relax.”

    Belitz came a step closer today to the closure he is hoping for. He found out that a doctor has determined that the woman charged with killing Michael is competent to stand trial.
    [...]

    Her attorney, Assistant Douglas County Public Defender Gary Olson, said he wants to examine the doctor’s report and have another doctor review it.

    Olson had an Omaha doctor, Dr. Bruce Gutnik, evaluate Manns this summer. Olson declined to say what that doctor found.

    Douglas County District Judge Mark Ashford today scheduled a competency hearing for Nov. 12.

    If Manns is found to be competent, she will have her preliminary hearing on the same date, bringing her a step closer to trial.
    [...]

    Kleine said a diary or day planner belonging to Manns had an entry June 22 reading, “Michael’s gone.”

    A later entry referred to “Michael clean-up.”

    After her arrest, Manns told investigators that her son was in Tennessee with an uncle, Kleine said.

    Source

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