What do I make of this story of a pair of really really bad neighbors? Well, let's take the final two paragraphs:

Kyla Welch, whose house backs up to the side of the Mack house, told the Denton Record-Chronicle that her neighbor did not appear to work and was a bit eccentric. But she said both were friendly enough to wave or speak when she saw them in the yard in the past eight years they have been neighbors. Welch said she had noticed recently that when she looked into the yard, Mack was sitting in the van.

"We did kind of notice they were out there all the time with the engine running. I just thought he was smoking in the van because of his mother's health," she said. "You never saw any lights in the house, but I thought they stayed in the back. You never saw anyone visiting," Welch said. "They were kind of odd, but they never bothered anybody."

Um, the van was parked in their front yard. And the engine was running. That's a little bit stranger than "eccentric". One neighbor even brought the man gas for his van so that he could continue to run the engine, yet go nowhere. Yet no one heard from the starving dogs who were so hungry they ate part of the dead mother's arm off, yet couldn't get anyone to let them out of the van. It's a sick, sick world, sometimes.