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An elderly woman who lived at a mobile home park in Redford Twp.,
Michigan hadn't paid her rent for months, leaving her landlord with
little choice but to evict her. When it came time to kick out
72-year-old Annie Marquis, however, the manager of Long's Mobile Home
Court and court officers made a gruesome discovery.
After a 64-year-old man opened the door to the woman's residence, the landlord peeked in and noticed her corpse on a sofa bed, Fox 2 reports.
Neighbor Connie Laesch told the news station that the man, Dennis McCauley, had been living with Marquis and didn't "act right."
"The officer noted a pungent smell of decay and observed a corpse in
the room immediately to the right of the front door," Redford Township
police Sgt. Kevin Crittenden told The Associated Press on Friday. "He called us. The corpse had obviously been deceased for some time and was partially dried out."
Authorities think Marquis passed away in November and are currently
attributing her death to natural causes, the newspaper reports. Marquis
and McCauley reportedly lived together for three years.
Police later arrested McCauley and charged him for failing to report
Marquis' death and for fraud related to living off her finances after
her passing, according to the Detroit News. They've also charged him
with mutilation, noting that the corpse's arm had been separated from
her right shoulder.
Regrettably, this isn't the only incident of a person co-habitating with a corpse in Michigan.
In July 2012, an elderly woman from Jackson named Linda Chase
was found to be living with the mummified body of her companion Charles
Williams Zigler. Police didn't arrest her, but did consider charging
her with fraud for cashing his social security checks.
An even stranger episode took place this January in Detroit. A man named Vincent Bright
stole his father's body from a funeral home with the help of an
accomplice. He kept the body in a freezer in his home and allegedly
hoped to bring it back to life. Police charged him with disinterring a
body, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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