Woman finds mummified remains of grandson in attic

http://nypost.com ^ | 12/02/2016 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[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.

[Bon mots]

Of course the unanswered question is, “what made the thump?”

The head finally detached from the body... :(

[oldasrocks]

Nope it’s the old lady across the street. She used to be a nice person till her husband died. She went off the deep end. So sad. Supposedly her kids were going to come clean out the house but it needs a dozer and a few dump trucks. It has been sitting empty (people empty) for several months sealed up. Imagine a house sized compost pit. A lot of feral cats hang around the place. Probably full of rats and mice.

[bert]

Mummy necks lack tensile strength

[drSteve78]

SO, DID HE VOTE??