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Missing Inaction

by Critical Todd | June 20, 2008 at 11:26 am | 309 views | 12 comments

This is creepy in so many ways. A woman is reporting missing. Nobody finds her for over forty years. Guess where they find her? In her apartment, in front of the TV. Well, not all of her, but what's left of her. She'd been dead for a long, long time.

THE remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing.

Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.

Everything in the apartment was just as they had been when she died... in 1966.

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generaldecay

at 11:46 on June 20th, 2008

Oh, that's so very sad. She must have had no one to care about her or her whereabouts.

Critical Todd

at 11:49 on June 20th, 2008

Actually, people did report her missing at the time. For whatever reason, no one ever checked her apartment. It boggles the mind that no one would look into the place, for whatever reason, for forty years.

generaldecay

at 12:05 on June 20th, 2008

Well, that's sort of what I mean. Wouldn't that be the first place a friend or relative would check?! Unless there's something suspicious afoot?

Critical Todd

at 12:19 on June 20th, 2008

You'd think so. Even if they didn't, why didn't the police? Did she own the apartment? Didn't anyone want to take a look inside? Drop of her mail? Anything?

Heiky

at 11:49 on June 20th, 2008

good stuff:

Critical Todd, I like this story. It's good stuff. Very strange indeed. Wonder why her family or friends didn't think of that.

jordan

at 13:34 on June 20th, 2008

good stuff:

I can't imagine a scenario in which a search would not include her apartment.

zichi

at 13:41 on June 20th, 2008

good stuff:

Critical Todd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

just amazing!

azzayindia

at 14:03 on June 20th, 2008

maybe she was the most hated person in the town nobody wanted to check her out.

azzayindia

at 14:04 on June 20th, 2008

good stuff:

Critical Todd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

zichi

at 14:26 on June 20th, 2008

I would like to know if the TV was still on?

amyjudd

at 19:19 on June 20th, 2008

This is terrible. What a sad horrible way to die. I can't believe NO ONE checked! Not even neighbours!

Barbara McPherson

at 22:44 on June 20th, 2008

good stuff:

Critical Todd, I like this story. It's good stuff. This was pretty interesting. I think the point about being friendless was valid. Maybe she was like H. Hughes. How did the rent/mortgage/monthly payments get made? Did someone apply for social security? Sounds very strange to me.