Posted on 03/07/2014 7:00:37 AM PST by Dallas59
For years, the payments went out of the woman's bank account.
Nobody batted an eyelid. Bills were paid. And life went on as normal in the quiet neighborhood of Pontiac, Michigan.
Neighbors didn't notice anything unusual. The woman traveled a lot, they said, and kept to herself. One of them mowed her grass to keep things looking tidy.
At some point, her bank account ran dry. The bills stopped being paid.
After its warnings went unanswered, the bank holding the mortgage foreclosed on the house, a common occurrence in a region hit hard by economic woes.
Still, nobody noticed what had happened inside the house. Nobody wondered out loud what had become of the owner.
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Sad but probably true...............and ‘lost’ relatives......................
2007 Jeep Liberty Sport; Low Miles; Garaged; Driven by a little, old lady. $14,590 obo
Maybe it was one of those mail slot in the door type of things.
She was found on the back seat of her car in the garage. The key was half way in the ignition.
That is a little bit weird, if not downright suspicious.
“It is possible that she stopped her mail.”
Don’t know if it is the same all over the country, but our local post office will only hold mail for thirty days. We are almost never at our home in Tennessee so my better half’s father picks up our mail every thirty days then renews the hold.
If she did, then it’s a fair bet that SOMEBODY knew she was dead. ignition keys do not turn themselves off and slide part of the way out of the ignition slot.
or she got a pension or other monthly payment that covered them until the bill amounts became more than the payment and the account bottomed out.
Well, she could have done that in her death throes.
Some people don’t have car payments or morgages. Maybe all she had was an electricity bill and a water bill and that is the reason her money in the bank held out so long.
I don’t do automatic payments, forces me to look at what I’m spending. I have a set time of the month, that I knock them all out, usually takes no more than 5 minutes.
Possibly. But it’d be tough to do from the back seat. And Carbon Monoxide victims usually just gently ‘fall asleep’, don’t they?
That's a salient point. But she seemed to be to young to be collecting a pension. Direct deposit from work that also didn't notice her missing? I suppose it's possible.
was anyone receiving and cashing any checks that might have come for her? Income tax refunds? Social Security?
any MANUAL withdrawals of her funds?
That would explain no one reporting her dead... and would not surprise me one single bit
Remember the lady in east Dallas who was found after being dead for a year in Feb 2006? She lived across the street from the house I grew up in. A cafeteria worker finally convinced police to check on her.
suicide
I don’t do automatic payments either but I don’t have a car payment or a house payment. If my husband didn’t order books on line from Amazon we would do NO on line shopping at all.
Definitely.
if the house pictured passes for middle to upper middle class in Pontiac, I don’t want to see poor
A bank account on “auto-payment”? Isn’t that kind of dangerous?
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