'Mummified' bodies found in Moscow flat

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Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Thursday June 9, 2005
The Guardian

Police said yesterday they had found the mummified bodies of three generations of one family in a flat where they had apparently lain dead for between two and 10 years.

The Moscow prosecutor's office said police broke into the flat in the south-west of the capital after complaints that the Komarov family had not paid their utilities bills for months. Inside the flat, in Artyukhino Road, they found the bodies of a man and three women in two bedrooms and the kitchen.

There was no sign of a disturbance, said Sergei Marchenko, a spokesman for the prosecutor, adding that the flat was full of icons and literature on the Russian Orthodox faith.

He said an initial examination showed the owner of the flat, Timofei Komarov, born in 1912, had died about 10 years ago. His body was found on a bed in one room, a calendar above his head opened on the year 1997. His wife, Anna Komarova, born in 1914, was found in a separate room, also on a bed. She had died at least three years ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1502192,00.html

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1. Um, who was paying their utility bills until recently, I wonder? n/t