Police in the Detroit area announced on Wednesday that they'd discovered the mummified remains of a woman.
According to the Oakland County sheriff's office, a property management company worker found the body in the back seat of a car parked inside a foreclosed home's garage.
The Associated Press reported the employee was performing a walk-through of the Pontiac home, located north of Detroit, when the body was found.
The remains are thought to belong to a 49-year-old woman who lived in the house on Savanna Drive, according to a report by KJRH.
Neighbors told the local news agency that they hadn't seen the past resident since 2011.
"It's been about three years since any activity has been at that house," one unnamed person who lived in the area told KJRH.
"When's the last time anyone has seen her?" another neighbor, Caitlyn Talbot, said. "About six years ago."
Talbot added that most residents figured the owner of the house had just moved out.
But Wednesday's discovery tells a different story entirely - the woman who lived in the home had been there the whole time, inside the garage, dead in the back of her Jeep.
"Nobody came over there to check on the lady," the anonymous neighbor continued. "It's weird. And it's actually scary."
The woman in question has been described as German, around 49 years old and a former employee for one of the Big Three motorists.
Talbot wondered how the woman could have been there the whole time with no alarm raised.
"You'd think because of her job, and we heard she had a son, so you'd think someone would've come looking for her," she said. "She didn't really talk to anyone. I'm sure she was a nice lady. She really kept to herself. We never really heard anything from her."
The Oakland County Sheriff's Department said more details will emerge once an autopsy is performed on the woman's body.
