A person found dead in a chair at a California home in the Sierra Nevada foothills is thought to have been there for more than three years, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
The body was discovered on Saturday by a Calaveras County sheriff’s deputy. The department had been asked by their colleagues in Amador County to inform the resident that his father had died in the neighboring county.
At the son’s home in the community of Wallace, on the south shore of Camanche Reservoir, nobody answered the deputy’s knock. The deputy looked through a window and saw what he believed to be a dead person in a chair. Detectives were called to investigate.
Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Stark told myMotherLode.com that evidence suggested the house had not been entered for more than three years. Because of decomposition, the body could not be positively identified or the cause of death determined, he said. An autopsy will be conducted.
Most of the homes in the semi-rural neighborhood are widely spaced and set back from the road.
In a case discovered last year in Las Vegas, a dead woman was believed to have remained in a chair in her home for almost three years, until intruders buried her in the backyard and began selling off her possessions.
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