# Skeleton found in attic of Michigan home - is there recent news of this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeleton-found-in-attic-of-michigan-home-is-there-recent-news-of-this/616392 "2012-03-21T11:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeleton-found-in-attic-of-michigan-home-is-there-recent-news-of-this/616392/1 "2012-03-21T11:28:59Z")
I read this story when it first came out and have heard nothing since. A family discovered a skeleton under the floor of their attic. Link to story [here.](http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/01/19/bones-found-in-historic-union-city-home/) Apparently, the bones have been there for many decades. It looks to me like someone got away with murder. Perhaps a Straight Dope member who lives in that area has some more recent news? I’d like to know if they were able to find out anything about this person - when and why she died, who she was, etc. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeleton-found-in-attic-of-michigan-home-is-there-recent-news-of-this/616392/2 "2012-03-21T12:40:23Z")
Wow - I live about 60 miles from Union City, and never heard about this. And I work at MSU, where the bones were taken for analysis. I found [one short reference to it](http://supportforstudents.msu.edu/stories/2012/01/24/tuesday-news-update-week-of-january-24-2012/) on MSU’s website to it, tho. I’ll keep my ears open, and post something here if I see more about this. ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeleton-found-in-attic-of-michigan-home-is-there-recent-news-of-this/616392/3 "2012-03-21T19:09:35Z")
Wow, that’s intriguing. It can take several months to figure out more info from skeletons, though…there was [one from the 19th century unearthed](http://griffincunningham.net/mmwhite/WILLY/william_henry_white.htm)near where I used to live and it took the authorities several months to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeleton-found-in-attic-of-michigan-home-is-there-recent-news-of-this/616392/4 "2012-03-22T11:58:16Z")
You’d think this wouldn’t be too hard a case to figure out. It’s obviously someone with a connection to a former occupant of the house. It’s not like somebody dumped a body in an old abandoned house - this is somebody’s wife that “went home to mother” or a brother that just disappeared one day, or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeleton-found-in-attic-of-michigan-home-is-there-recent-news-of-this/616392/5 "2012-03-22T13:50:36Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > You’d think this wouldn’t be too hard a case to figure out. It’s obviously someone with a connection to a former occupant of the house. It’s not like somebody dumped a body in an old abandoned house - this is somebody’s wife that “went home to mother” or a brother that just disappeared one day, or something like that. I don’t know about that. These bones could be over 100 years old. Finding any record of the wife that “went home to mother” could be tough and the nosy neighbors aren’t around to help anymore.