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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.
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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
From India, Madras
Weird, Astonishing and Devastatingly Sad.
If someone is missing, it seems that their apartment would be the first place you would look for clues. This case just seems to show a total lack of concern.
Pictures of this would be worth a lot of bucks. Hope someone has them.
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From India, Madras
If someone is missing, it seems that their apartment would be the first place you would look for clues. This case just seems to show a total lack of concern.
Pictures of this would be worth a lot of bucks. Hope someone has them.
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From India, Madras
Yeah Malini..A weird incident that made News a year back I think! But....... Many things ponders.. No smell from the dead? There should have been neighbours around!! No Relatives? No Friends? No one Complained Missing? None checked up the House?
Phew!!!!! Really Weird!!!!!
From India, Madras
Phew!!!!! Really Weird!!!!!
From India, Madras
Ya Hima even i wonder why none of her neighbours even peeped in to see where is she?????????????nor her friends/relatives lodged a complaint on her missing
From India, Madras
From India, Madras
Hedviga Golik was born in 1924 in Rijeka, Croatia. She apparently once worked as a nurse at a nearby hospital and occupied that apartment in 1961. The flat was just a 18-square-meter and in the attic of the apartment building.
Most neighbors remember her as a “strange and mysterious” woman who rarely communicated with them and had no friends or family, except a sister. But Hedviga was not in good relations with her sister, who lived in Rijeka. Because of her strange behaviour many neighbors thought that Hedviga was suffering from schizophrenia.
There were also rumors that Hedviga was member of a “religious sect” and the last time she was seen alive in 1973 (one neighbor said she was absent for much longer, probably since 1967) she was with these two men, and one neighbor said they were members of a sect.
So, when she disappeared everyone thought she had moved from Zagreb with the “sect”. Or what is perhaps closer to truth, nobody actually missed her.
That’s why she was never officially declared as missing person by police.
Apparently nobody noticed anything strange and there were no smell when Hedviga died because her windows were open, she was malnutritioned and wrapped up in her bed so instead of rotting her body was naturally mummified.
Strangest detail in the case was the fact that all that time Hedviga was lying dead in her bed, an architect, who died just three months before the discovery of Hedviga’s mummified body, was paying her electricity bills, according to Croatian daily Jutarnji list.
Also, in 1998 a mysterious note was written on the door of Hedviga’s flat with a warning from the City of Zagreb that the flat was ownership of Hedviga Golik and that any entering into it will be considered as illegal.
This is strange because journalists from Jutarnji list interviewed the authorities from the City of Zagreb and they said that note was not official and was not written by the City of Zagreb.
There were several attempts by tenants in the building to figure out who is exactly owner of the Hedviga’s flat. In 1991 (when the war was erupting in Croatia) one tenant even send a memo to police but the police ingore it and did nothing.
Perhaps the saddest part in the whole story of Hedviga Golik’s is the fact that neighbors’ never actually cared what really happened to that “strange” woman who lived in their building for years and who one day simply vanished forever. It seems, for all those decades, Hedviga was dead in her bed, they were more interested in her apartment.
From India, Madras
The second part that i have posted abt her history was the one that i got from net and coming to the pics, am not sure whether its related to this incident or not...........Found on net and felt apt so i pasted the pics there
From India, Madras
From India, Madras
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