No one knew they were dead for months
Sep 15, 2002
They were missing for months, yet nobody took notice. Till, Mohammed
Sajid, a burglar nabbed by the Shahinayatgunj police, mentioned a
break-in he had committed some months ago.
Jayaprada, a
56-year-old woman, and her two daughters lived in a two-storey house in
Kundanbagh. Neighbours said they last saw the three sometime in June.
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Thereafter, they simply vanished. Truth is, all three had died. The
police on Saturday recovered their badly decomposed bodies from their
house. A bottle of black liquid — presumably poison — was recovered from
the room where the bodies were found.
The front door of the house was locked from inside, but a side entrance was not padlocked.
A heap of newspapers from June 21 lay strewn on the verandah near the front gate.
"As poisoning was the apparent cause of death and the temperature was not particularly high, the putrefication took longer than normal. The neighbours never got the smell of rotting flesh," an investigating officer said. The bodies have been sent for autopsy and the liquid is being analysed at a lab.
The rooms had been ransacked and clothes were piled next to the bodies. The almirahs were open and cheque books and documents were dumped on the floor. "It is possible a burglar had entered the house. He saw the three dead women on the bed. He didn't alert the police and came back repeatedly to take away the loot," he said.
Shocked neighbours said the inhabitants of the house were "queer" people. "They would light candles at midnight and walk around the house. The mother would weild an axe and scare away people. They even hung bottles filled with blood on their verandah," one of them said.
"Some students of a nearby college had filed a complaint against this family some two years ago," assistant commissioner of police P Rama Rao said. It is probable that the strange ways of the Jayaprada family kept area residents from making inquiries about their whereabouts. Jayaprada was a native of West Godavari district and was a divorcee.
The front door of the house was locked from inside, but a side entrance was not padlocked.
A heap of newspapers from June 21 lay strewn on the verandah near the front gate.
"As poisoning was the apparent cause of death and the temperature was not particularly high, the putrefication took longer than normal. The neighbours never got the smell of rotting flesh," an investigating officer said. The bodies have been sent for autopsy and the liquid is being analysed at a lab.
The rooms had been ransacked and clothes were piled next to the bodies. The almirahs were open and cheque books and documents were dumped on the floor. "It is possible a burglar had entered the house. He saw the three dead women on the bed. He didn't alert the police and came back repeatedly to take away the loot," he said.
Shocked neighbours said the inhabitants of the house were "queer" people. "They would light candles at midnight and walk around the house. The mother would weild an axe and scare away people. They even hung bottles filled with blood on their verandah," one of them said.
"Some students of a nearby college had filed a complaint against this family some two years ago," assistant commissioner of police P Rama Rao said. It is probable that the strange ways of the Jayaprada family kept area residents from making inquiries about their whereabouts. Jayaprada was a native of West Godavari district and was a divorcee.
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