This is to tell you how lonely and unassociated some Americans can be. How unearth would nobody go look for or ask after someone with nine siblings later found dead for five year. Dumbfounding!
Woman named Pia Farrenkopf, was reported to have died 5 years ago unnotived because the last she used her card to withdrawn $1,500 from her checking account in February 25, 2009.
This woman is said to have 9 siblings but yet Friends and family didn't see or hear from the woman they described as fun and intelligent in the years since, but they chalked it up to Farrenkopf's solitary tendencies.
A
family member even tried to phone in 2012 to tell Farrenkopf her mother had
died, but never got a response.
Mortgage payments kept being deducted
automatically from bank accounts flush with cash from Farrenkopf's job at ALLTEL
Information Services, where she had once programmed banking
software.
It
was not until the money ran out in 2013 and the bank foreclosed that Farrenkopf
was finally discovered.
The Detroit Free Press reports two repairmen, hired to patch
a hole in the roof, found her in 2014, slumped in the backseat of the Jeep
Liberty parked in her garage, mummified.
Investigators later noted she was found
surrounded by hundreds of unopened letters and several empty packs of
cigarettes. She had $500 in cash in her pockets and a partially drank bottle of
wine by her side.
Detectives couldn't find a single
fingerprint on the bottle.
The
home was in a state of chaos and disrepair - a far cry from the way her friend
Joan Gill Strack said Farrenkopf liked to keep her home.
'Her house was well-kept, very clean,
very tidy,' Strack said. 'She liked things picked up and ordered.'
But police found the floors littered with empty soda bottles, more
unopened mail, loose clothing and refuse. Black mold had invaded after the sump
pump broke down, with dark spots dotting the walls.
Strack, who had worked with Farrenkopf
when the two lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, said she was 'fun to be around' and
'very, very good at her job,' and traveled to Scotland and England and
throughout the US for work.
Still, Farrenkopf was never extremely
social. Siblings recalled long stretches of time where they wouldn't hear from
Farrenkopf, who would often not return phone calls.
Then a postcard or call came from a
far-flung destination like Austria.
'Sometimes she would go, literally, for
years without us hearing from her,' one sister, Jean LeBlanc, who lives in the
Boston area near where Pia and her nine siblings grew up, told the Free
Press.
'And then all of a sudden, she'd show
up, so nobody ever thought anything about it.'
Strack remembers how easily Farrenkopf
could cut people out of her life when, after a friend showed up a few hours late
for a party without calling, she immediately ended the
relationship.
'Pia told her she was done with her,'
Strack said. 'She didn't speak to her after that.'
Strack said her own friendship with
Farrenkopf ended in 2001, though she could provide few details beyond saying
that they were together too much.
Yet
Farrenkopf was by all accounts still doing well. She continued working at
Pontiac Fidelity National Information Services, where she was an 'exemplary
employee,' management told the Free Press.
She
even began planning to open a small business of her own - a fitness business in
nearby Waterford called Slender Lady.
LeBlanc, who managed a Curves location
in Massachusetts, agreed to travel to Texas with her sister in 2003, where the
two attended a two-week seminar on health in preparation for Farrenkopf opening
her business.
That plan was never fully realized.
Court records showed the owners of the property sued Farrenkopf in 2005 for
breaking her lease, though Farrenkopf never responded to the
complaint.
Credit card companies also initiated
three lawsuits against her from 2005 to 2007 over unpaid bills, receiving
judgments that added up to over $15,000.
Her
homeowners association placed liens totaling more than $2,000 against unpaid
dues for the association.
Farrenkopf wasn't always shut in her
home, though it was often unclear where she was.
Officers checked on her home in 2005,
when neighbors told them they had not seen her in a month.
Inside the home, police said they
rescued her abandoned cat, Bungie, and white poodle, Baby, but while the pets
were kept in a shelter - Baby was later adopted - there's no evidence Farrenkopf
came to collect them.
In
May 2008, she resigned from her job under circumstances that are unclear, then
in October of that year, she was cited for driving with a suspended license,
expired plates and no proof of insurance.
There's no record of Farrenkopf after
the 2009 cash withdrawal, and investigators, who checked credit card statements
and subpoenaed bank, phone and health records in a 'massively thorough' search
say her cause of death is undeterminable.
'There was no trauma to body, so it
only leads to a couple conclusions,' Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard
said. 'Either it was a medical situation that led to her death or something
self-induced.'
Medical records showed Farrenkopf, who
was 44 when investigators believe she died, smoked more than a pack a day and in
spite of being worried about her liver, drank regularly.
Other family members dealt with cancer,
heart disease, high blood pressure and kidney disease, according to that
report.
But
the tank in the car still had two gallons of gas left, which led investigators
to rule out carbon monoxide poisoning and her organs were so mummified,
according to deputy medical examiner Dr Bernardino Pacris, making a toxicology
report impossible.
The
case is now inactive, leaving relatives wondering what happened to their sister
that would have ended her life quietly and out of sight.
'I
just don't u
nderstand why anybody would sit in the
backseat of their own car. And just stay there,' LeBlanc said. 'Why would you do
that?'
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