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2007-06-06 10:52:40
Bank sells house complete with owner's corpse
Tue May 15, 9:24 AM ET
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish bank repossessed a house and put it up for auction
complete with the mummified body of the former owner who had missed her
mortgage payments, newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday.
The corpse, preserved by salty air in the seaside town of Roses after an
apparent death by natural causes, was discovered by Jorge Giro, who entered the
house for the first time on Saturday after buying it at the auction, El Pais
said.
The dead woman, described by neighbors as having been in poor health and often
absent visiting relatives in Madrid, had stopped paying her mortgage six years
ago.
The unnamed bank which eventually repossessed the home never bothered to look
inside before selling it.