Bones of missing woman found at her home

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looks like someone did not look good enough?---or even search the house?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_re_us/brf_found_dead;_ylt=AiX592KyWNRHlm1OOt8o3qvMWM0F

Bones of missing woman found at her home

2 hours, 46 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The remains of a woman reported missing four years ago were found in her home after the new owner sent a cleaning crew to the house.
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Until last week, no one apparently knew what happened to 83-year-old Florence Bock. She was found on Friday, said police Sgt. Carlos Nieves.

The house in the Bronx was purchased recently by a developer after the missing woman was declared dead, police said.

The cleaning crew found Bock's remains — a pile of bones, including a skull, lying next to a cane.

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1. Isn't this the second case like this recently?

I remember a man's corpse found sitting in front of a tv. With the tv still on.

Seems like incompetence is the rule these days, not exception.

[jobycom]

2. The other case wasn't of a missing man, though

The man found in front of his television hadn't been reported missing. It sounds like this woman had, since she had been declared dead.

[LibDemAlways]

3. So someone declared her missing, but no one

thought to thoroughly check her home? She was declared dead, and no relatives - even distant ones - came forward to go through her stuff? And the house was sold, but neither the realtor nor the propective buyers questioned why there were bones in the house next to a cane? It took a cleaning crew to find the bones? Were they up in the attic or in a remote corner of the basement? They would have had to be in a pretty inconspicuous place to have been missed. This story is very strange.

[TheWraith]

5. The place was likely sold without an internal inspection.

That's common for some property investors.

[applegrove]

4. That is so sad.