MAN MISSING FOR 14 YEARS WAS PUSHING UP DAISIES IN HIS WIFE'S FLOWER GARDEN!

Everyone thought David Ellis Bostic had disappeared 14 years ago, but the truth was he was pushing up daisies the whole time.

After Ruth Huber Bostic died last year, police discovered her husband's remains under the garden she lovingly tended outside their ramshackle North Carolina home for years.

No one knows exactly what happened and with her death at 78, she may have taken the answer to her grave.

"It's a mystery. Things happen no one ever expects," said David Bostic's nephew Carl Willis, 59, who last spoke to his uncle in 1994.

Authorities say Ruth had been estranged from her family and appeared to have suffered from mental illness.

"Her family hadn't talked with her in years and years," said Raleigh police Detective J.D. Faulk. "Over time, her mental problems got worse and worse."

Neighbors said Ruth Bostic was prone to telling outlandish tales of working in Hitler's concentration camps and of a friendship with the Russian czar.

When her husband got sick in the 1990s, she told them he'd had a stroke and everyone thought he had gone to a nursing home.

Meanwhile, the Bostics' bungalow fell into disrepair and became an eyesore in the neighborhood.

"She had most people around here scared of her," said mailman Eddie Taylor.

David Bostic's nephew, Willis, said the last time he heard from Ruth was in 1995 or 1996 when she called to say his uncle was ill.

She told Willis she planned to move his uncle to New Jersey where she had a sister who worked in a nursing home. He never heard from her again.

In 2010, she died in her living room. Her body was only found after Taylor realized she's stopped checking mail.

Cops soon discovered that her husband had continued to receive Social Security checks long after he had last been seen.

When neighbors said Ruth had always maintained the garden immaculately despite the sorry state of the rest of the house, cops dug it up - and there David Bostic was.



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