How thick are walls in Texas?

There are a few things about this that are pretty weird.  Not suspecting foul play, but just a weird damn way to die.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/new-homeowners-find-missing-womans-skeleton-inside-the-wall-of-their-house/ar-AAvalVi?li=AAadgLE&ocid=ientp

I suppose I could have titled it, "How skinny are women in Texas?"

horrible way to die.. wedged into a wall with no way to escape while you suffered from terminal dehydration?

Noone noticed the horrible smell?

They say everything's bigger in texas....

We have a kinda weird two-story house, and apparently there's an opening in the floor our attic that leads to the slab. 

If you're not burying bodies in your walls are you even Texan

What's the R-value of a rotting corpse anyway?

In reply to Pete Gossett :

If nothing else you can say you use organic insulation

David S. Wallens said:

We have a kinda weird two-story house, and apparently there's an opening in the floor our attic that leads to the slab. 

I rented a place like that. There was a shaft that ran from the crawlspace to the attic between the master bedroom and the bathroom. I assume it was done for plumbing as this was a duplex with top and bottom apartments and all the bathroom pipes and vents ran in it, but it was odd that you could literally climb a ladder from top to bottom

room-mate worked a case back in the day with bodies in the wall.  never solved but he had the spidey feeling it was the neighborhood creeper who lived in the house at one time.  God'll git him but it kinda sucks when the law doesn't.  Having said that without the ultimate temporal relief it makes it more likely.  I'll say a prayer for this lady over the weekend for her accidental yet ignored demise. 

I have an enormous old house with all sorts of voids and "dead" spaces in the walls and I never thought about how creepy that is until now. I mean, literally a dozen square feet or more of "voids" that you could lose people or animals or stuff in. Lots of dead space in a 6400sf house that's been added on to over the decades.

I remember a similar story to this one where a guy got trapped between two walls in a bar and nobody noticed until after the indoor smoking ban and then the smell became noticeable.. Here it is: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/31418414.html

Super creepy.