The mystery of twin mummies found in a Moscow apartment has been revealed

First the sociable sister died, then the unsociable one

The mystery of the death of the mummies of two 73-year-old twin sisters, who were discovered on November 24 in an apartment in Moscow on Kuusinen Street, has been revealed. Pensioners suffered from senile disorder syndrome (Diogenes syndrome).

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According to neighbors, two sisters lived together in the apartment, one of them was sociable and quite often contacted neighbors on everyday issues. The second woman practically did not leave the apartment and was very unsociable. At the beginning of this year, pensioners flooded their neighbors downstairs several times, and plumbers were called to them.

“I mainly communicated with only one of the sisters; I rarely saw the second,” explained a neighbor of the pensioners. — We moved to this house in 2017, and she came to meet us. She was well-groomed, manicured, and lively. Over the past two years, she has suffered greatly, stopped taking care of herself, stopped washing herself, and began collecting garbage at night. The last time I saw her was in June. In the summer, a huge number of flies appeared in the entrance, and residents in the stairwell began to complain about the unpleasant smell. And when I noticed receipts on the door that showed a utility debt of almost 80 thousand, I decided to call the police. Previously, they paid regularly. When they opened the apartment, it was terrible what was happening there. It was covered in insects and littered with garbage.”

The apartment itself, where the corpses were found, was terribly cluttered with unnecessary things that one of the twin sisters had collected from around the area. The women's bodies were found in different rooms. One of them, which was often seen by neighbors, was lying on the floor in the room and was covered with a blanket. She most likely died first. The second twin sister, who rarely left the apartment, lay at the front door in street clothes. Preliminarily, both women died about six months ago. To establish the exact cause of death, the bodies have been sent for forensic examination.