In 2006, officials from a north London housing association entered an apartment belonging to a 38-year-old woman identified just as Joyce Carol Vincent to reposes it due to unpaid rent and what they discovered next was nothing but a skeletonized body of a dead person believed to be Joyce but officers needed to invited first for identification.
This was because she was entirely unidentifiable. Her body was mostly decomposed, as she had been dead for years.
Joyce Carol Vincent lived in London in a bedsit, a type of social housing in the United Kingdom.
HOW SHE WAS DISCOVERED
According to an exclusive article by ATI , the officials who came to her apartment on January 5, 2006, were there to repossess her apartment due to unpaid rent. Though, it’s estimated that she died sometime in December of 2003.
Neighbors didn’t really know her, thus didn’t really notice her absence. The only detectable thing was a bad smell, which they attributed to garbage bins below the apartment.
Vincent was found on the floor, clutching a shopping bag. Because her remains were mostly skeletal, she was only able to be identified through dental records. It also had been too long to determine a cause of death, though police suggested she died of natural causes after a criminal investigation ruled out any foul play. Vincent reportedly had asthma and it’s been speculated that she may have had an attack.
With a cause of death essentially placed, only one question remained: how could someone be dead for two years and no one notices?
Not that anyone deserves to die and go unnoticed for several years, but it was particularly strange that nobody seemed to know Joyce Vincent had passed away. She was 38 years old, she worked for most of her life, she had family and friends, and wasn’t known to be on drugs or in any legal trouble.
Carol Morley….