Carol Kopka put up with the junk house next door for 16 years before it finally got torn down last month.
And it turns out folks all over the city were living next to junk houses controlled by the same man — 80-year-old John Waters, who was charged with felony forgery last week for faking a property document.
Carol and her neighbors had no idea their complaints would turn up that news.
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Mark Konkol covers city neighborhoods for the 
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