An Emmy-winning production designer who had a reputation for hoarding was discovered dead in her New York City home, buried behind a mountain of trash.
According to a police spokeswoman, Evelyn Sakash, 66, was discovered on her kitchen floor, buried in trash, on Tuesday, April of last year.
Sakash was a seasoned production designer and scenic artist who contributed to movies including Still Alice and Mrs. Winterbourne and earned a Daytime Emmy for PBS’s Between the Lions.
She received a nomination for the live-action/puppetry series Between the Lines the year after she won the Daytime Emmy in 2003. Along with the miniseries The Langoliers, a few TV movies, and an episode of the Netflix prison comedy Orange Is the New Black, she has also been in every episode of the Nick Jr. series Allegra’s Window, which ran from 1994 to 1997.
Along with Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) and Still Alice (2014), Sakash also contributed to the films Urge (2016), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby trilogy (2013–2014), White Lies (1997, Made in America (1993), Paradise (1991), and Mermaids (1990).
Sakash’s sister reported to authorities that they discovered the body when she had employed a cleaning team to clean the Queen’s residence and search for Sakash.
Sakash hadn’t been seen since September 30, 2020, a missing-persons report was then filed with the NYPD, officials said.
Authorities, however, do not currently believe Sakash’s death was the result of illegal activity, but the medical examiner’s office is attempting to identify the cause of death, according to the police.
In an update shared by Sakash Family and friends, they described the 66-years-old as a “kind, loving, and generous person.”
“This is just devastating,” Brown told New York Daily News of her sister’s death. “She had a full life. She was so extraordinarily talented. She was a brilliant mind … I don’t want my sister to be remembered like that, like the way she was found.”
“This was clearly in effect for a long time,” she added of Sakash. ” She sometimes kept people at bay. The headline says ‘Queens hoarder,’ but that’s not who she is.”
Her sister had “helped so many of her friends,” Brown recalled.
“Every one of her friends would say she was the first person to step up if someone needed help. She was so generous with people,” she said. “I want all of that to be the final testament, and not that she was found in a bad condition.”
Sources: Awm, Independent, Nydailynews,
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