Police find skeleton in Hague-region home; Dead inside for years

“A while ago,” The Hague police found a body in a home that had been there so long that they had completely decomposed and now consisted of only a skeleton, a forensic employee of the police wrote on Instagram on Tuesday.

The officer described the condition of the home where the deceased was found. It had a pile of mail behind the door, flies, mouse droppings, and a call to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The oldest piece of mail was over two years old, though the officer pointed out that it doesn’t necessarily mean the deceased had been dead all that time or that they were the resident of the home.

“We did indeed find a complete skeleton,” the officer wrote. “I’d never seen anything like it before, and it made an impression.” According to the officer, the skeleton was lying peacefully, and there were no signs of a struggle.

Upon closer inspection, the officers found a tiny little mouse skeleton with the deceased person. The discovery triggered a reaction at the scene. “This person had been dead for years before they were missed. And yet, they weren’t completely alone.”

The officer did not say when or where they found the deceased, but the post was published on the Instagram page of the Den Haag police unit, which covers all municipalities in the Haaglanden and Hollands-Midden regions.