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 Gloversville police have released more information about circumstances surrounding the death of 94-year-old Hope Ruller. Time Warner Cable News reporter Barry Wygel has the details. 
 
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 GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. -- "They are unable to determine cause of death due to severe composition, but they are able to rule out blunt force trauma or penetrating objects," said Gloversville Police Chief Donald VanDeusen. 
 
 
 
 Still more questions than answers surround the death of 94-year-old Hope Ruller, who was found dead in her home badly decomposed. 
 
 "In the upstairs apartment lived Ms. Ruller's daughter who was Mary Kirsteen, and Mary Kirsteen did live with an adult child," said District Attorney Louise Sira. 
 
 Police are unsure just how long Ruller laid dead in her home only saying it was many months. In addition to interviewing family and neighbors, police are looking at the family's financial records. 
 
 "We are at the mercy right now of other agencies, who we have subpoenaed records to, we are waiting for those records to come into us," VanDeusen said. 
 
 "Often times, when people fail to report the death of an elderly person, perhaps there is financial motive," Sira said. 
 
 District Attorney Sira said although they can't yet connect the dots in this case, it does seem similar to a case from 2003. 
 
 "We did have a similar case in Fulton County years ago involving the death of Helen Travis. Helen was found kept in a Rubbermaid garbage container at the home of her son, Richard Travis," Sira said. 
 
 In that case Travis and his girlfriend continued cashing his mothers social security checks before being caught and sent to prison. It's unclear if that is what happened this time in Gloversville. 
 
 "I don't want to rush it, because any rush to judgement May not get us the proper outcome," Van Deusen said. 

 GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a 94-year-old woman's badly decomposed body may have been in her upstate New York apartment for more than a year before being discovered, despite her daughter living just above her. 
 
 Police and prosecutors in Fulton County tell local media that Hope Ruller may have died in her first-floor apartment in Gloversville as long as 14 months ago before being discovered Dec. 29 after police received a request from a relative to check on her welfare. 
 
 Officials say her daughter lived in the two-story home's upstairs apartment along with an adult son. 
 
 Officials say an autopsy was conducted but a cause of death couldn't be determined because of the body's severely decomposed condition. 
 
 Police say Ruller's death is being treated as suspicious. No arrests have been made, but police say their investigation is continuing.
– That a 94-year-old was found dead would not typically make national headlines, but the case of Hope Ruller is a bizarre one: The New York woman's decomposing body may have sat in her apartment for as long as 14 months—as her daughter, Mary Kirsteen, and Kirsteen's adult son lived upstairs. Police in Gloversville came upon the body Dec. 29 after responding to a relative's request that Ruller be checked on, reports the AP. The death is being treated as suspicious, though a cause of death couldn't be determined due to "severe" decomposition. "But they are able to rule out blunt force trauma or penetrating objects," says the town's police chief. District Attorney Louise Sira tells Time Warner Cable News that "often times, when people fail to report the death of an elderly person, perhaps there is financial motive," and she references a 2003 case in the county in which a son didn't report his mother's death and continued to collect her Social Security payments. There's no indication, however, that that occurred in this case, though police have subpoenaed the family's financial records. (In 2013, a corpse was found in a Paris apartment eight years after the man's death.)