Missing Emmy Winner, 'Hoarder' Found Dead Under Garbage In Home

NEW YORK CITY — A missing person mystery surrounding an Emmy-winning production designer ended with a grim discovery in her Queens home.

Evelyn Sakash, 66, was found dead buried under garbage on her kitchen floor on Tuesday, a police spokesperson told the Associated Press.

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She had been a known hoarder and was last seen Sept. 30, according to an NYPD missing person report.

Sakash's sister, who had hired a cleaning crew to clear out the woman's home in the College Point, ultimately found her body, police said. Her body was "mummified" underneath a pile of trash, according to the New York Daily News.

But Sakash's life was more than her apparent tragic end. She was a production designer who had worked on films including “Mermaids,” released in 1990, and 2014's “Still Alice,” according to her IMDB page.

She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 for “Between the Lions.”

The city medical examiner's office will determine her cause of death.