Woman found living with the dead, decomposing body of her boyfriend who may have died a year ago
A man was found dead in bed in his Michigan home on Monday morning, along with his girlfriend, who had been living in the house since before he died.
Police did not find the body until relatives asked them to perform a welfare check after being unable to contact the 68-year-old.
An investigation has been launched into how and when he died, with sources suggesting to Fox2 he may have been dead for a year.
The woman who had been living in the house has been taken for a mental health evaluation, and authorities have questioned how she was able to live with a decomposing body in the home.
A woman was found to be living with her dead, decomposing boyfriend in a Michigan house (pictured) on Monday
'It really is bizarre,' Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer told WWJ.
'For someone to be living in a home for months with someone that had for whatever reason died, to live with the odor and the other factors that are involved in this, it's just quite frankly very disturbing.'
Neighbour Jacob Caza told Fox2 the smell of the home is overpowering, and he doesn't know how the woman was able to breathe, let alone live, inside.
The medical examiner is in the process of determining how the man died, but Commissioner Dwyer said his body is so badly decomposed the investigation will take a long time.
'At this point we're not sure if it was a natural death, suicide or even a homicide,' he said.
Authorities said the woman's living situation was 'very disturbing' and that the man had been dead for months, if not a year (pictured is the home in 2012)