An elderly Scottish woman was found dead in her home after failing to show up for her appointment with the COVID-19 vaccine – and now authorities believe her body may have been there for 12 years, reports said.
Christina Malley, who would have been in her eighties now, was discovered last month at her home in Cover, where she lived with her husband, Daniel, the Daily Record reported.
Nurses went to the house to look for Malley after she failed to show up for her vaccination appointment, the outlet reported.
When authorities knocked on the door, her husband said she had gone abroad, the outlet reported.
But her body was later discovered in the house, prompting a police investigation.
Police are still trying to determine how she died, but said it is possible she may have been dead for 12 years, the outlet reported.
A police spokesperson confirmed the discovery of a woman’s body in the house.
“Death is treated as unexplained and investigations are underway,” the spokesman told the outlet.
Neighbors were amazed to find out that Daniel was married.
“I’ve never seen him with a woman in all the time I’ve lived here,” one resident told the Sun.
I shudder to think she could have been in the house all this time. Why was there no smell or flies? It’s just so weird. “