Missing Floridian woman found dead behind her bookcase; may fallen adjusting TV plug

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) A woman missing for nearly two weeks was found dead in the home she shared with family members looking for her, wedged behind a bookcase in her room. <br/><br/>Mariesa Weber,

Saturday, November 25th 2006, 6:02 pm

By: News On 6

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) A woman missing for nearly two weeks was found dead in the home she shared with family members looking for her, wedged behind a bookcase in her room.

Mariesa Weber, 38, returned home October 28th and greeted her mother, then wasn't seen again. Her family thought she had been kidnapped and contacted authorities. Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, though they did notice a strange smell.

Late one night Weber's sister went into her bedroom and looked behind a bookcase, where she saw a foot. Using a flashlight the family saw Weber was wedged upside-down behind the unit.

``I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her,'' her mother, Connie Weber, told the St. Petersburg Times. ``And she's right in the bedroom.''

Weber's family thinks she may have been trying to adjust a plug to a television that was behind the bookshelf. Both Weber and her sister had previously adjusted the plug by standing on a bureau next to the shelf and leaning over the top. Her family believes Weber, who was 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, may have fallen headfirst into the space.

``She's a little thing,'' her mother said. ``And the bookcase is 6 feet tall and solid. And she couldn't get out.''

A spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said the death is not suspicious and that Weber appeared to have died because she was unable to breath in that position.