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A mummified body was found in a car while a prospective house buyer was inspecting the property --

Quote:DETROIT — A University of Michigan anthropologist is to perform an autopsy Tuesday on the mummified and unidentified remains discovered last week in the garage of a Detroit house.

The body is so decayed that a specialist is needed to discern its gender and age as well as the cause of death, said Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office spokesman Lloyd Jackson.

"They don't know the sex or approximate age, so that's why they need an anthropologist," Jackson said Monday.

The decomposed body was found Thursday face down in the backseat of an early 1990s Plymouth Acclaim inside the garage. Authorities have described the finding as a skeleton of brown, leathery bones dressed in pants, shirt and a sweater.

The discovery was made by a man interested in buying the residential property who was checking out its detached garage. The garage is behind the two-story bungalow on the 19900 block of Spencer.

Tenants who lived at the home told police that the property's owner said they couldn't use the garage, so they never went inside.

A woman who answered the front door of the house on Monday declined to comment for this story.

A nearby resident said she was shocked to hear of the discovery and has no idea whose body it could be. The resident, who only gave her name as Cookie, said that until last week she had never seen the garage open or noticed any sort of odd behaviors or smells emanating from inside.

The neighbor recalled how her dogs did inexplicably start barking for a period of time, but she isn't certain whether the barking was related to the body decomposing in the nearby garage. The neighbor described the house's previous occupants before the current tenants as a mother and son who moved out about four or five years ago.

Property records show the house and garage on Spencer last sold for $21,000 in 1986 and is in the name of Emanuel Martinez, who also is listed with an address in Warren. Attempts by the Free Press to reach Martinez were unsuccessful.

This situation reminds me a story a few years back, maybe out of Kansas or Iowa. An elderly woman died and when relatives came to collect her possessions, they found multiple mummified carcasses of cats and dogs. The apartment had been poorly maintained, with many rooms apparently unused for long stretches of time. I distinctly remember that a large dog was found in a bathtub in advanced stages of mummification. The forensic scientist interviewed said the dog could only have been preserved as well as it had because the disused bathroom had been kept at an insane 95+ degrees for over a decade.

Anyways, it's pretty crazy that a mummified body could be found in somebody's house. The body must be decades old, who knows how the person died. So many people getting shot and killed in Detroit, it's probably pretty easy for a body to go unnoticed.

The story is pretty new, so I guess we'll have to wait to see what the anthropologist decides happened to the body.

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Quote:The body is so decayed that a specialist is needed to discern its gender and age as well as the cause of death, said Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office spokesman Lloyd Jackson.

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I'd be shocked too if I found hillary clinton sleeping in my garage

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Well shit I guess that's what happens if you decide not to call Mr. Wolf.

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Man: Uh oh. Flat battery. I'll just call roadside assistance and wait here in the car.

Arlington:



Detroit:

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Quote:Tenants who lived at the home told police that the property's owner said they couldn't use the garage, so they never went inside.

When I saw this line, I immediately thought the property owner should be prime suspect number 1. However, who would be dumb enough to leave a rotting corpse in the garage knowing that a prospective buyer would be inspecting said garage? Perhaps the current owner really is that dumb, or has bodies decomposing all around town and simply forgot about this one. Or perhaps somebody else decided to stuff a body in a car and lock it in the garage.

The only question remaining is, did the suspect use the rope or the candlestick to murder John/Jane Doe?

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If I die tonight, I will die happy knowing at least I didn't die in a low-line 27 year-old Plymouth.