An Emmy Award-winning production designer reportedly known to be a hoarder was found dead under a pile of garbage in her New York City home this week.
New York City police told the Associated Press on Tuesday that Evelyn Sakash, 66, had been discovered on her kitchen floor buried underneath debris, her body partially decomposed.
Sakash — who was known for her production design work for movies such as “Mermaids,” “Taxi,” and “Still Alice” as well as for the hit Netflix series, “Orange is the New Black” — had reportedly gone missing last fall. In a missing persons report posted on Twitter, the NYPD stated that she had last been seen on Sept. 30.
According to an update post on the GoFundMe page set up to fund the search for her whereabouts, Sakash’s sister, Ellen Brown, had hired a cleaning company to clean out her apartment and that’s how they came to find her body.
