Hoarders

Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collection of bags stuffed with dolls, and a doll hospital in a spare bedroom where she "amputates" the limbs of one doll to make another complete. Now, her son is threatening to call Adult Protective Services if she doesn't get a handle on her compulsion.

Billy Bob's house is so filled with toys and games, puzzles, cars, dolls and stuffed animals that he can no longer maneuver through the paths. The hoard has strained relationships with his children and his wife. In declining health, Billy Bob must now part with his collections or become a prisoner in his own home.

In this special Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah, Dennis and Nadene, Bob and Judi from Season Two.

Roy is facing $20 million in fines from the county for hoarding hundreds of vehicles on his property. Loretta and her husband were robbed at gunpoint and later had their home looted by thieves. They started over in a different neighborhood but the trauma and loss triggered Loretta's compulsion to hoard everything in their new home.

Randy's boardwalk memorabilia collection fills a 20,000 sqare foot building and numerous tractor trailers. He's spent millions on his fantasy world known as Randyland--but it's never been open to the public. Vicki's hoarding is breaking up her family. Not only is her husband ready to walk away from their marriage, but their 15-year-old son wants to move out as well.

Ron's home is filled from top to bottom with paper--books, thousands of pages of sheet music, old newspapers, magazines and assorted trash.Ron must clean his home now or quite possibly die in it. Vivian's husband used to commute between his business in Detroit, Michigan and their home in California. But eventually his wife's hoard pushed him out of the home and into a hotel.

Beverly has been obsessively recording thousands and thousands of hours of audio and video for decades. Her home is filled with TV's and recorders, her yard piled high with boxes of tapes and her walls hidden behind floor to ceiling stacks of video cassettes. Megan is living in her hoarded, mouse-infested home with a one-week-old baby and her two older children.

Becky's hoard fills 16 separate storage units and the monthly fees have driven her into debt. Because of her hoarding Clare was forced by the Sheriff's Department to undergo involuntary mental examination and then banned from her own property until it is cleaned.

Stacey has two days to get rid of the 47 dogs and cats that have taken over her house. They have ripped everything to shreds and forced her 14-year-old daughter to move into her brother's home. Roi has already been in jail twice due to his hoard. And now the fire department has kicked him out of his house because of a gas leak buried deep in piles and piles of belongings.

Lisa is an active chef, a member of various cooking groups, an expert on historical cooking gadgets--and a compulsive food hoarder. Even though she lives in an affluent DC neighborhood in a million-dollar home, her kitchen mirrors a slum. Bertha delivers newspapers for a living, stopping along the way to pick through her client's trash looking for "treasures" to bring home.

This one-hour special updates viewers on what has happened to five of our hoarders one year after they received crisis assistance from the HOARDERS Team.

Kevin is the youngest son of renowned political strategist and a silver screen star--both of whom have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He grew up in a huge mansion living a charmed life. But now Kevin has hoarded himself out of this Upper East Side Manhattan apartment and sleeps on a bench in front of the building.

John is a retired corrections officer living in a house with more than 30 cats hiding in the walls and ceilings. They run wild through most of the home and all surfaces are covered with cat feces and urine.

Judy hoarded herself out of her house and used cancer surgery as an excuse to stay with her friend Linda. A few weeks turned into a ten months nightmare of Judy hoarding and squatting in Linda's home. Now Linda and her family are ready to kick Judy out--cancer or no cancer. Judy needs to clean up before she ends up homeless.

Ronald is a fire-fighter who is legally mandated to report hoarded homes. In this case the hoarder is his wife, Eileen, and the house is his own. Eileen has destroyed not only her 3,200 sq. ft. home, but her relationships with her husband and six sons. Her son Steven has threatened to turn Eileen in to the health department if the living conditions are not improved for his four younger brothers.

Wilma's hoard has done so much damage to her home that the city has deemed the structure uninhabitable. Regardless, she is illegally squatting there and if she doesn't clean up, her property will be condemned. She takes no responsibility for her hoarding and the impact it has had on her three grown children

Mike's house is so toxic that a virus she contracted in the home caused her kidneys to fail and almost killed her. Her doctor advised her not to return to the home until it was thoroughly cleaned. Bonnie is a 46-year-old single mother of two teenage daughters, neither of whom can remember ever having a clean house.