Last year, a woman was found mummified in the backseat of her car. Today news reports reveal more information about her.
Pia Farrenkopf lived in Pontiac, Michigan. She's often described as a middle-class woman who had a good job in an IT service company where she was an exemplary employee. She also seemed smart, setting up an account for her mortgage and utilities. Companies can simply deduct this account for her bills.
However, she was also solitary even among her 9 siblings. Thus, when she "disappeared" for more than 4 years, nobody knew what happened. Her neighbors thought she was only on a business trip. Her siblings, meanwhile, thought she was her usual self: one sibling mentioned how she could distance herself for years without communication and resurface one day.
So since 2009, everyone believed she was alive somewhere, although she already passed away.
Her account could pay for mortgage up to 2013. In 2014, when she started defaulting, the bank decided to foreclose and seize her property.
The bank then ordered a pair of repairmen to repair damage to the roof. But they did more than that: they reported the presence of her mummified body in a Jeep Liberty parked in her garage.
When the forensic specialists arrived, they noted that the body had gone through so more changes over the last few years they could no longer determine the main cause of her death. Interestingly, the car's contents might provide some clues. Along with her mummified body were several letters that had remained unopened. They also discovered a bottle of wine, partially opened and drunk. There were also empty packs of cigarettes--she was a heavy smoker--and a good amount of money in her clothes' pocket.
While she planned of opening her own business, she was also seemingly buried in huge debts. She was sued by the home's owner because she violated her lease contract. She amassed more than $15,000 of credit card debts and companies were already running after her. She had liens for not paying her association dues and even a record for driving with no insurance and suspended license in 2008.