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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 06:39 PM Mar 2014

'Mummified' body found in garage of foreclosed house

PONTIAC, Mich. — A contractor working on a foreclosed home discovered a "mummified" body — believed to be that of the homeowner who had not been seen by neighbors for years — in the attached garage.

The body of the woman, who was in her 40s, was discovered Wednesday in the backseat of a Jeep, parked in the garage of a house on Savanna Drive, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.

Undersheriff Mike McCabe said investigators believe that the woman has been dead since at least 2008. That's the same year the license plate on the Jeep expired.

"She had $54,000 in her account and her bills were being deducted," McCabe said. "Eventually the money ran out and her house went into foreclosure."


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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/06/mummified-body-found-in-foreclosed-home/6129233/

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'Mummified' body found in garage of foreclosed house (Original Post) n2doc Mar 2014 OP
Sad story, no one missed her. nt Logical Mar 2014 #1
yea.. what I was thinking... what a travesty that you can die and 6 years go by any nobody notices. 1awake Mar 2014 #2
That could be me Warpy Mar 2014 #3
You don't want to blow town? nt 1awake Mar 2014 #6
You would be missed here on DU. Downwinder Mar 2014 #9
It doesn't have to be. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2014 #10
It happened in my family, Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2014 #4
No one cared until the money PumpkinAle Mar 2014 #5
Got every last dime. Downwinder Mar 2014 #7
Mercy shenmue Mar 2014 #8
Found in the garage in the backseat of her car? Sounds like a suicide. REP Mar 2014 #11
Mmmm...not in House of Cards... PCIntern Mar 2014 #12
That was passenger seat, push button ignition REP Mar 2014 #13

1awake

(1,494 posts)
2. yea.. what I was thinking... what a travesty that you can die and 6 years go by any nobody notices.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 06:41 PM
Mar 2014

Warpy

(111,289 posts)
3. That could be me
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 06:51 PM
Mar 2014

My family is all gone and my friends blew town for greener pastures and more money.

It happens. Some of us just finish up alone.

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
10. It doesn't have to be.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 07:35 PM
Mar 2014

Volunteer at the local food bank. At the pet shelter. Meals on wheels. At the domestic violence shelter. Join a church.

 

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)
4. It happened in my family,
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 06:58 PM
Mar 2014

The woman found jesus and ran off to Virginia to marry the doofus who had "saved" her, she told her family she wouldn't see them again until they also found jesus, this naturally was poorly received by her observant Jewish family and there was no contact with her after about 1982.

She died penniless and alone sometime in 1989 in North Carolina and was found by the gas company many months later and she wound up in a paupers grave. In 1995 upon the death of her mother a lawyer went looking for her and learned she had been dead for years. The family had her body exhumed and returned to New Jersey.

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