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Posted on 12/02/2016 2:04:49 PM PST by heterosupremacist
A Pennsylvania woman found the mummified remains of her grandson in her attic — two years after the man suddenly went missing, authorities said.
Zanobia Richmond discovered the corpse of Dyquain Rogers, 21 — who was reported missing in November 2014 — after she heard a thump on the top floor of her Erie County home, officials said. She called police immediately after making the gruesome find.
“They were mummified,” Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told The Post of the remains. “The lack of airflow and the fact that the attic wasn’t vented — those conditions were optimal for dehydration and mummification.”
Officials did not release a cause of death, but sources said it appeared Rogers had hanged himself.
Cook, the county’s coroner of 16 years, said his office rarely sees cases involving mummified bodies.
“It is unusual, we don’t see much of that,” he said. “They’re very rare.”
Cook said there’s no evidence of foul play, saying there’s “nothing to suggest anything other than suicide” in the case. But some of Rogers’ relatives had to be convinced that he took his own life, including his aunt, who organized early efforts to find him when he originally disappeared.
Erica Jeffries-Jordan told the Erie Times-News on Thursday that she now accepts suicide as her nephew’s cause of death after initially calling for an autopsy, saying she “didn’t believe” that Rogers killed himself.
“I have to accept it now because that is what they said,” Jeffries-Jordan told the newspaper, referring to police, Cook and another one of Roger’s relatives. “I really don’t want to accept it.”
After questioning the initial suicide ruling on Wednesday, Rogers told the newspaper she no longer disputes Cook’s finding.
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Don’t worry , I’m resisting the urge. :)
I don’t think the mummifying process is as stinky as rotting.
I was in a Hoarders house once where it smelled so bad a rotten corpse would have been like an air wick.
A well vented roof might have kept the odor above where it would be noticed. All houses have sewer vents through the roof. You don’t smell the sewer as you walk down the street.
Of course the unanswered question is, “what made the thump?”....I know I’ll get beat up for this buuuuut, His jeans rotted away?
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“The lack of airflow and the fact that the attic wasn’t vented”
If he was missing, did no one check the house two years ago? Wouldn’t the body have been found if they’d checked the house thoroughly?
Haven’t have the pleasure of meeting the desiccated variety, so I can only guess you may be right. But sometimes sure appears strange about this.
Cook, the county’s coroner of 16 years, said his office rarely sees cases involving mummified bodies.
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No sh*t, Sherlock. Who’d a thunk it?
I’d hang myself too if my parents named me Dyquain.
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LMAO. Prize for the funniest one-liner of the day.
LOL !
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WTH??? Most of the time?? Where was it the other times? Geez! What a stupid comment!
Wouldn’t there have been a odor?
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Not if he used a good deodorant.
Maybe after 2 years, the rope broke?
"What thump?"
” I can vouch for the intensity of the perfume.”
Oh yeah. I once had to open an apartment after the old lady hadn’t been seen for quite awhile. Smell was intense. I didn’t even go in, just called the fuzz.
Fabreeze!
Eventually the head and the body part company.
Thump goes the body.
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Should have been two thumps. She missed hearing his head.
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