Posted on 12/02/2016 2:04:49 PM PST by heterosupremacist
A Pennsylvania woman found the mummified remains of her grandson in her attic — two years after the man suddenly went missing, authorities said.
Zanobia Richmond discovered the corpse of Dyquain Rogers, 21 — who was reported missing in November 2014 — after she heard a thump on the top floor of her Erie County home, officials said. She called police immediately after making the gruesome find.
“They were mummified,” Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told The Post of the remains. “The lack of airflow and the fact that the attic wasn’t vented — those conditions were optimal for dehydration and mummification.”
Officials did not release a cause of death, but sources said it appeared Rogers had hanged himself.
Cook, the county’s coroner of 16 years, said his office rarely sees cases involving mummified bodies.
“It is unusual, we don’t see much of that,” he said. “They’re very rare.”
Cook said there’s no evidence of foul play, saying there’s “nothing to suggest anything other than suicide” in the case. But some of Rogers’ relatives had to be convinced that he took his own life, including his aunt, who organized early efforts to find him when he originally disappeared.
Erica Jeffries-Jordan told the Erie Times-News on Thursday that she now accepts suicide as her nephew’s cause of death after initially calling for an autopsy, saying she “didn’t believe” that Rogers killed himself.
“I have to accept it now because that is what they said,” Jeffries-Jordan told the newspaper, referring to police, Cook and another one of Roger’s relatives. “I really don’t want to accept it.”
After questioning the initial suicide ruling on Wednesday, Rogers told the newspaper she no longer disputes Cook’s finding.
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Only time I seem to read of blacks hanging themselves, the family says it was not suicide, and tries to blame white people.
Now that is weird. I am sorry for the horror the family has to face.
Of course the unanswered question is, “what made the thump?”
Wouldn’t there have been a odor?
I’d hang myself too if my parents named me Dyquain.
It’s a reverse Norman Bates situation.
Hey! Anyone seen Dyquain?
Oh, he’s hanging around somewhere......
Bada Bing, Bada Boom.....
The young man was looking to join the Navy. Too bad-might have turned his life around.
It must have been a bloater at some point. Missing the smell of that oozing down from an unventilated roof space is quite an achievement.
Having found several Bloaters hanging in trees over the years I can vouch for the intensity of the perfume.
likely the condition of body finally broke apart and fell from the noose
Rope broke?
The rope rotted and broke?
Of course the unanswered question is, “what made the thump?”
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Eventually the head and the body part company.
Thump goes the body.
Rope broke?..............
I think your answer is more likely than broken rope. Gruesome.
Well did you take into account the ambient odor of the home to start with may not have been April fresh ?
I almost don’t want you to say more.
I think you’re right. The head likely broke loose from the body causing it to fall to the floor causing the thump sound.
Humans aren’t as rank as a Deer , but a domestic odour strong enough to mask a hanging stiff doesn’t even bear thinking about.
Excuse me, I need some air.....
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