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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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Logical
(22,457 posts)1awake
(1,494 posts)Warpy
(111,289 posts)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.
1awake
(1,494 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)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)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.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)ran out - what a sad reflection on our society.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)PCIntern
(25,558 posts)something to think about.
REP
(21,691 posts)I don't think Jeeps had those back then.