Woman Who Died While Watching TV Sat Unfound for 42 Years

Hedviga Golik made herself a cup of tea and sat down to watch some television in her home town of Zagreb, Croatia. Sadly, she died in her chair. This was in 1966. She was just found, 42 years later, in her time capsule mausoleum where she's been sitting ever since. She never finished her tea.

What's absurd is that she was in fact reported missing, but somehow no one ever checked her apartment, which leads me to believe no one checked anywhere. I mean, where else do you look for someone when they're missing? I don't understand it. Her neighbors apparently just assumed she moved out of her apartment, and she was finally found when the police broke in to figure out who owned the place.

A police spokesman said: "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."

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WHAT???!!!

Tax dollars hard at work!

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There was a case about this before but it was an old man...I think it was in the US

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YIKES!

But in a weird way, I would love to see a pic of what the place looks like

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CNN has a different version of the story:


ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- 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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wow...really nice neighbors--they seem more concerned about the dividing up of the apartment than anything else.


thats just such a crazy story

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How on earth is this possible?????
It didn't smell in there?
This is a very sad story if it's true..

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Wow not one person ever noticed something was wrong. That is a not right As for her neighbors they should be ashamed of themselves.

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Posted by pinkiegirl

How on earth is this possible?????
It didn't smell in there?
This is a very sad story if it's true..

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Posted by BabyCote2006

YIKES!

But in a weird way, I would love to see a pic of what the place looks like

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She had no family or friends that wondered what happened to her? The neighbors didn't wonder why no one went in out of the apartment for DECADES? This is a strange and sad story.

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Whichever version is true - this is one of the oddest things I've ever heard. Honestly, the first thing that popped into my mind was "people had their own tv's in Croatia in 1966?"

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that is totally odd, I guess she didn't have many friends....

Those damn Croatians!! me being one of them

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that cant be true!

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wow! thats crazy!

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The whole thing just sounds very odd to me

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Nobody cared that the rent was not paid for 35 years?

I have a hard time believing this.

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Hmmm

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Hmmmmmmm... I wonder if this is really true. If it is, what a sad story to think no one missed her for so many years.

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Posted by pinkiegirl

How on earth is this possible?????
It didn't smell in there?
This is a very sad story if it's true..

And what about the rent? Didn't anyone come to collect the rent?
I don't get it!

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very strange story

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there is so much that is odd about that story..

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Posted by pinkiegirl

How on earth is this possible?????
It didn't smell in there?
This is a very sad story if it's true..

Message edited 6/19/2008 8:13:06 AM.