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Years but it isn't until the sudden death of her husband in 2001 that a tendency become a compulsion. >> went way over the edge. you do the grief counseling, you do all the things you think you should. sometimes it doesn't help. what i found was i would go to work and come home and just want to cocoon myself. i just didn't want to deal with anything. >> in the cases of somebody, a spouse passing away, you have kind of two complicated issues because now you're more alone, you're more isolated and you fill things up with stuff. a lot of times people with compulsive hoarding don't trust their mem...

>> over here, fella. >> we didn't see him back there at first. he was standing behind where probably the kitchen table would have been. i think the kitchen table was actually under all the stuff. it was up to the ceiling. i've never seen anything like that before. >> let's move on to the living room. >> i think the worst room was probably the front room. the front room was the biggest room. that's the one that probably had the most stuff. >> piled as high as you could see, up to the ceiling. you had to walk across most of the -- probably two, three feet up in the air on top of the clothes, to ...

Empty water bottles, pizza box, food containers. >> i see people talk about milk bottles in the same way that we're speaking about individuals or talking about a cat or a living creature. not all but some individuals truly believe that these objects have feelings and the loss that they would sustain in throwing away milk bottles is not that different than someone who is getting rid of a cat or a dog. >> the homeowner, whose identity is also being kept confidential, is not only looking for help with removal but also to locate a lost family treasure. >> we asked was there anything you're looking...

Physicians, blankets. >> it was hilly. >> there's the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the top of the doorway is where you would smash your face on. the bree was three feet from the doorway which is roughly 4 1/2 feet. at some places wit us higher. couldn't see out any of the windows. clean clothes and she would pack them away so it wasn't, you know, just garbage. >> there's the top of the door. >> i got a little bit of clearance. >> to put that much stuff in there, she had been doing it for many years. it was kind of sad. you got a sad feeling that somebody was living like t...

I found that. >> what's the odds of finding something like that in that mess. >> i'm 5'3" and it must have come up to my shoulder. a lot of times you see a path and there was no path. you didn't just walk in, you climbed in. it was an amazing amount of trash. >> because of the amount of debris, the living conditions are extremely dangerous. >> she was clearly in danger of having fire in that building. because when you live in a place like that, you have that kind of paper and you have all these extension cords underneath this stuff, one spark with a lot of dryness, it can very easily happen. >...