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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Would have made a great dehydrator, then.
Probably the rope finally broke
I was in a Hoarders house once where it smelled so bad a rotten corpse would have been like an air wick.
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Hilarious. Hope it wasn’t a relative’s house.
You chose wisely, my friend.
Parfum aux cadaver is not a recommended fragrance.
Wouldn’t the body have been found if they’d checked the house thoroughly?
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Only if they checked the attic.
Years back as a telephone man (remember them?)with turf that included the ghettoes of Dade and Broward I have moved furniture and found mummified skeletons of cats and rats.
I always wondered how someone could live with that stench for the time it took to become a mummified skeleton.
Guess ya get used to it??
WTH??? Most of the time?? Where was it the other times? Geez! What a stupid comment!
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I think they’re meaning to say that Rogers, before he decided to visit the attic, could have been elsewhere for a time when he first went missing.
Being named after an antihistamine is a problem
Noooo, good try, but, they were talking about his body.
OK, I just re-read that comment - and I can see THAT version. Thanks.
I know this guy was 21, but I always thought that rule number one when someone went missing was Search The House.
Zanobia?? Dyquain???
A pistachio and a ‘rhymes with train’
If I read that right, ROFL!
Dyquain jerky no thanks
Should have been two thumps. She missed hearing his head.
could still be hanging there.
That was “Hump,,? What Hump?”
*neck
Gross, I know. So was the Report I saw about the guy in Japan who has to go into the woods around Mt Fuji, popular for suicides, mostly by hanging, to pickup the remains. One case was a skeletonized body, clothed bones under the plastic-rope noose, skull rolled over yonder...
“All houses have sewer vents through the roof.”
Those don’t open into the attic. They go straight into the plumbing. And they aren’t to stop sewer smell on the street. They are to keep your drains from vapor-lock.
You're right, The place was probably overdue for a thorough vacuuming.
The aunt probably used too much Febreze to mask odors which she had no idea what was causing them.
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