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(#16) Croatian Woman Found After 35 Years
In Zagreb, Croatia, intruders stumbled upon the body of Hedviga Golik in her small loft apartment. Neighbors allege last seeing Golik in 1966, when she would have been around 42 years old. Medical examiners determined she likely died circa 1973, and her body remained unfound for approximately 35 years.
Authorities found her sitting in front of the television, a dusty cup of tea on the table beside her. Reportedly, Golik’s neighbors - who had been financing her rent and utilities - requested authorities check in on the woman back in 1991. The coroner’s report indicated she died of natural causes.
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(#8) Joyce Carol Vincent's Body Lay On A Sofa For Over Two Years
In 2006, while in the process of repossessing a home, London police discovered the body of 38-year-old Joyce Carol Vincent. Medical examiners determined she died over two years prior. According to the police, they found her on her couch. The television set was still on, tuned to BBC1, and a small pile of unopened Christmas presents lay on the floor.
Authorities identified Vincent from her dental records and ruled her death as from natural causes. Her death inspired a 2011 docudrama, Dreams of a Life.
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(#11) Michigan Woman Found In Car Five Years After Her Death
In 2014, two repairmen found the body of Pia Farrenkopf on the property of her Michigan home. They discovered her body in the driver’s seat of her car. Investigators determined she died in 2009. Because Farrenkopf often traveled for business, her family did not regard her absence as questionable. Reportedly, it took years for Farrenkopf’s bank account to dwindle - as automatic payments took care of her mortgage and bills.
When the money ran out, the bank foreclosed on the home. Medical examiners were unable to rule the cause of death due to the advanced state of decomposition.
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(#4) Body Found Behind False Wall
In 2013, a construction worker accidentally unearthed the remains of Joann Nichols, 55. Someone had hidden Nichols’s body behind a "false wall" in the basement of her former home in Poughkeepsie, New York. Nichols’s husband, James, had reported her as missing in 1985. The medical examiner determined the cause of death as blunt force trauma:
The body was skeletonized and the hands were tied with rope. …A large area of the right side of the skull was also missing.
Investigators suspected James for Nichols’s murder, but he had passed shortly before the discovery of his wife.
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(#10) Missing Canadian Skier Found 35 Years Later
In 2015, authorities identified the body of a Canadian skier who had been missing for 35 years. Gregory Barnes’s family last saw him before he left to ski the Italian-Swiss Alps in 1980. According to the Italian Police, the warmer than usual temperatures melted a substantial amount of ice, revealing his body.
Barnes was an avid outdoorsman, and investigators determined his death was an accident.
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(#12) 300-Year-Old Hidden Body Found in Bishop's Tomb
In 2015, after performing a scan of a 17th-century tomb, researchers discovered the body of a premature baby buried alongside the deceased Bishop Peder Winstrup. Bishop Winstrup died in 1679, and his crypt is located in a cathedral in Lund, Sweden. Winstrup was a prominent figure in Lund, and he once served as Denmark’s royal chaplain.
Researchers found his body, as well as the 5 to 6-month-old fetus beneath him, well-preserved. Examiners speculate the baby died as a result of a miscarriage or stillbirth. Researchers are testing DNA to see if there’s a link between the two, but they believe burial staff included the unbaptized baby to give it a Christian burial.
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There have been reports that a Japanese man's body was discovered several years after his death by his sister who lived with him. At that time, the body was dried up and was almost disposed of along with household garbage. Many people face the threat of death every day, and the way they die is not always the same, including murder, illness, or accident. However, the bodies of some of the dead people have not been discovered for many years, until people had almost forgotten them.
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