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(#15) Man Missing For 23 Years Found Submerged In Lake
In 2015, a fisherman on Hillsdale Lake accidentally unearthed a 1981 Chevrolet Citation. The car belonged to Fremont O'Berg, of Paoloa, Kansas. Family reported 57-year-old O’Berg missing in 1992. Tim Leeper, who found the car using sonar, contacted police when he saw human remains inside the car.
Reportedly, O’Berg suffered from heart and liver conditions. Medical examiners could not determine the cause of death, although foul play is not suspected.
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(#7) Missing Yucca Valley Woman Found Dead In Car After Two Years
In 2013, Carla Ruth Reyes went missing. Hikers didn’t discover her body - in the back of her Mitsubishi Gallant - until 2015. Reyes, a 52-year-old Yucca Valley woman, reportedly left her cell phone at home before driving out to an isolated part of California’s Highway 62.
Her surviving family believes she took her own life, and medical examiners determined no foul play occurred.
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(#13) Body Of Child Missing For Two Decades Found In Mother's Closet
In 1999, the NYPD arrested Madeyln Carmichael, 60, after they received a tip about a missing 3-year-old Brooklyn girl. Authorities found Carmichael’s daughter, Latanisha, hidden in a closet, inside a footlocker. Reportedly, Carmichael tried to mask the smell with incense and air fresheners. Neighbors alleged Carmichael claimed she sent Latanisha "to live down south."
Investigators uncovered the body wrapped in newspaper from 1979, signifying the girl had been missing for two decades. Carmichael had no previous criminal record, and Brooklyn courts sentenced her - as well as her middle-aged son - for tampering with evidence.
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(#11) Michigan Woman Found In Car Five Years After Her Death
In 2014, two repairmen found the body of Pia Farrenkopf on the property of her Michigan home. They discovered her body in the driver’s seat of her car. Investigators determined she died in 2009. Because Farrenkopf often traveled for business, her family did not regard her absence as questionable. Reportedly, it took years for Farrenkopf’s bank account to dwindle - as automatic payments took care of her mortgage and bills.
When the money ran out, the bank foreclosed on the home. Medical examiners were unable to rule the cause of death due to the advanced state of decomposition.
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(#16) Croatian Woman Found After 35 Years
In Zagreb, Croatia, intruders stumbled upon the body of Hedviga Golik in her small loft apartment. Neighbors allege last seeing Golik in 1966, when she would have been around 42 years old. Medical examiners determined she likely died circa 1973, and her body remained unfound for approximately 35 years.
Authorities found her sitting in front of the television, a dusty cup of tea on the table beside her. Reportedly, Golik’s neighbors - who had been financing her rent and utilities - requested authorities check in on the woman back in 1991. The coroner’s report indicated she died of natural causes.
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(#4) Body Found Behind False Wall
In 2013, a construction worker accidentally unearthed the remains of Joann Nichols, 55. Someone had hidden Nichols’s body behind a "false wall" in the basement of her former home in Poughkeepsie, New York. Nichols’s husband, James, had reported her as missing in 1985. The medical examiner determined the cause of death as blunt force trauma:
The body was skeletonized and the hands were tied with rope. …A large area of the right side of the skull was also missing.
Investigators suspected James for Nichols’s murder, but he had passed shortly before the discovery of his wife.
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There have been reports that a Japanese man's body was discovered several years after his death by his sister who lived with him. At that time, the body was dried up and was almost disposed of along with household garbage. Many people face the threat of death every day, and the way they die is not always the same, including murder, illness, or accident. However, the bodies of some of the dead people have not been discovered for many years, until people had almost forgotten them.
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