Vrouw zit al 42 jaar dood voor tv

[Iwan]

De Kroatische politie heeft het stoffelijke overschot gevonden van een vrouw
die 42 jaar geleden als vermist was opgegeven. De dame zat in haar knusse zetel voor de tv.
Een zwart-wittelevisie uiteraard. Hedviga Golik, geboren in 1924, had zich volgens de politie
een lekker kopje thee gezet en haar nadien in de zetel gezet om tv te kijken.
Volgens de autoriteiten was de dame in 1966 voor het laatst gezien door haar buren.
Die dachten dat de dame verhuisd was naar de hoofdstad Zagreb.
De vrouw werd aangetroffen nadat de politie was ingebroken in de kleine flat
omdat het gemeentebestuur wel eens wou uitvissen wie nu eigenlijk de eigenaar
van het appartement. "We hebben er tot dusver geen idee van hoe het mogelijk is
dat niemand is gaan checken of de vermiste vrouw niet in haar eigen flat woonde",
klinkt het bij de politie.





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[Maeve]

Bizar verhaal dit!

[Iwan]

raar dat iemand 42 jaar door voor een tv kan zitten en dat niemand haar mist of er wat van merkt.
Moest ze geen huur of andere vaste lasten betalen en als ze dan een betalingsachterstand
van 42 jaar heeft, waarom gaat er dan niemand op onderzoek uit?

[Nevyn]

Ik geloof er echt helemaal niets van...

[DonWoozy]

dan vind je volgens mij gewoon een skelet of niet dan? :s vaag hoor

[Dity]

Als ze al voor 42 jaar geleden als vermist is opgegeven dan ga je als politie zijnde toch eerst in de woning kijken om aanwijzigen of iets dergelijks te vinden?

[mary-kate]

ja erg vaag en vreemd

[XXXX]

inderdaad een raar verhaal....

[lovelyz]

Ik geloof er echt helemaal niets van...

ikke ook niet, broodje aap verhaal, echt wel... Ãâ€"wh

[Iwan]

Ik geloof er echt helemaal niets van...

ikke ook niet, broodje aap verhaal, echt wel... Ãâ€"wh

Volgens CNN was het inderdaad niet waar dat Hedviga Golik
42 jaar dood voor de TV zat, maar zat ze er slechts 35 jaar en lag ze in bed.

Woman's dead body lies in flat for 35 years

ZAGREB, Croatia - Governments have changed. War erupted and ended.
Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left
her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital, until her mummified body was carried out
this week, 35 years after she died.

Police said Friday that no one ever reported Golik missing
and no one has come to claim her body.

Residents of her loft building in downtown Zagreb had broken into Golik's flat
after deciding that the apartment should belong to them, and not to her.
Startled by the remains in bed, they called police.

Forensics experts said Golik likely died in 1973, about the time a neighbor last saw her.
Expert Davor Strinovic said she seemed to have died of natural causes,
but "it's almost impossible to say for certain" after so much time.

Some of Golik's neighbors claimed she had talked about going abroad.

Experts said her windows had been open, likely diminishing the smell.
It remained unclear who, if anyone, was paying her bills
and who exactly owned the apartment. In the 1970s, when Golik died,
apartments were state-owned.

Neighbors now argue the apartment should be divided among the remaining tenants.

The discovery of Golik's body on Tuesday prompted media debates
on how it is possible for a woman to die so long ago without anyone noticing.
One local journalist said it showed people were becoming more alienated.

"My dear neighbors! Please keep on being curious and a bit tiresome,
as you have been so far," Merita Arslani wrote in the Jutarnji list daily

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De Daily Record spreekt wel van 42 jaar dood voor de tv.

Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years.

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.

Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966,
when she would have been 42 years old.

Her neighbours thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb.
But she was found by police and bailiffs who had broken in
to help the authorities establish who owned the flat.

A police spokesman said: "So far, we have no idea how it is possible
that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found
before in the same apartment she used to live in.

When officers went there, they said it was like
stepping into a place frozen in time.
The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table
next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was
full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been
disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there."

Neighbours were shocked by the discovery.

Jadranka Markic was nine when Hedviga "vanished".
She said: "I still remember her. She was a quiet woman
who kept herself to herself but was polite.
We all thought that she had just moved out and gone to live with relatives."

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