Skeleton found in attic 15 years after former owner vanished

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New owners renovating a location successful eastbound France made nan daze find of a quality skeleton that are apt that of a erstwhile proprietor who vanished 15 years ago, prosecutors said Monday.

"A corpse reduced to a skeleton was recovered connected Saturday afternoon" successful Erstroff, conscionable crossed nan separator from German metropolis Saarbruecken, said Olivier Glady, charismatic successful adjacent municipality Sarreguemines.

The remains were recovered "in a difficult-to-access spot nether nan tile whose entranceway was almost hidden," Glady told AFP Monday.

The caller owners were renovating nan location aft buying it successful 2023 pursuing nan decease of nan erstwhile owner's widow.

"While looking for nan root of rainwater leaking into nan tile structure, 1 of nan owners entered nan cubbyhole almost without realizing, and recovered nan skeletal remains inside," Glady said.

The assemblage "is very likely" that of nan erstwhile owner, who vanished successful 2009 erstwhile he was aged 81, he added.

Local constabulary are investigating nan origin of death, and nan remains person been sent to Strasbourg for forensic examination, Squadron Leader Benoit Vautrin said, according to location newspaper Le Republicain Lorrain.

Le Republicain Lorrain reported that nan man's disappearance had gone unresolved contempt galore intensive searches of nan area. The newspaper identified nan man arsenic Aloïs Iffly.

His woman died successful 2020, prompting nan waste of nan house.

"The segment wherever nan assemblage was recovered hints astatine suicide," charismatic Glady said, adding that a statement was recovered still hanging successful nan attic.