Posted on 03/10/2014 9:43:18 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A picture has surfaced of a woman whose mummified remains were found in the garage of her Pontiac home, the body having lain there for around five years.
It is believed to be that of Pia Davida Farrenkopf, 49, the home's last occupant - though the police have yet to confirm this - and a black-and-white high school photograph of her has emerged....
The remains were discovered only last Wednesday when a bank contractor was sent to the home to investigate a hole in the roof after it went into foreclosure in March 2013.
Farrenkopf's payments for her mortgage, utilities and other bills, were automatically deducted from her bank account which at one time contained $54,000.
The money finally ran out, leading to the grim discovery of the woman's mummified body lying on the back seat of a Jeep Liberty registered to Farrenkopf inside the garage.
Undersheriff Mike McCabe told Detroit Free Press that investigators believe the woman has been dead since at least 2008. That’s the year the license plate on Farrenkopf's Jeep expired.
The body was clothed in a heavy jacket and jeans, leading investigators to believe that it was winter when she died.
The key was in the ignition, but it was switched to the off position.
Investigators are treating the death as a homicide at this time and say suicide by carbon monoxide seems unlikely. The body shows no signs of trauma, McCabe says.
Neighbor Darryl Tillery, 49, said the woman’s mail never piled up at the house and her lawn was kept neat.
'It was pretty manicured,' he told the Detroit Free Press. 'There was no indication there was a body in there, at all.'
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If there was a discernible rend in that direction, it wouldn't be long before that would be found "unconstitutional."
Whoever was cutting the grass did as much to keep her from being found as anyone or anything else.
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Yes, that is a big part of the puzzle.
Got to find the mysterious grass cutter.
It may well be that some neighbor noticed that the grass was not getting cut and took it upon himself to start doing it. There is a vacant foreclosed house down the street from me. The guy who lives across the street from it cuts the grass there whenever he does his own. No point in waiting around for the bank to do it.
Somehow this reminds me of the old saying, "If you think nobody cares about you, just miss a couple car payments."
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