Relatives of Pia Farrenkopf, whose belatedly found body in Pontiac is a global news story, don't want to be seen as uncaring -- even though years passed without family contact.,
A sister and nephew tell the Associated Press they worried after failing to reach her and asked authorities to check the home, The Detroit News reports.
The police told the family . . . they checked the home and didn’t find anything suspicious, said her sister, Paula Logan of Carver, Mass.
Logan wasn’t sure what year she called the police.
“They said they did a wellness check and didn’t see anything wrong,” Logan told the Associated Press. . . .
The two sisters, who have eight other siblings, last saw each other in 2007, she said.When their mother and a third sister died over the years, Logan tried to call Farrenkopf but couldn’t reach her.
“The phone just rang, rang, rang,” Logan said.
The mummified body, lying the back seat of a Jeep inside a northwest Pontiac garage, may have been there since 2008, authorities said.
AP also spoke with nephew Eric Logan of Plymouth, Mass., who's quoted as saying:
“We’ve done everything we could do, shy of us kicking the door ourselves. All of us are just devastated.”
