{"id":2954,"date":"2007-12-04T06:44:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/late_911_wears_the_late_crown.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:42:42","slug":"late_911_wears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/late_911_wears.html","title":{"rendered":"Late 911 Wears The Late Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not gruesome, just sad<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The skeletal remains of a reclusive elderly woman, fully clothed as if she’d been about to go out, were found in her Brooklyn home yesterday — two years to the month since neighbors last reported seeing her.<\/p>\n

Christina Copeman, 70, was found lying on her side in the second-floor hallway of the three-story building she owned on East 92nd Street in East Flatbush.<\/p>\n

Her nephew, Peter Bishop, said she was wearing a heavy coat, a hat and a scarf.<\/p>\n

Altea Bishop said she believed her sister had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

“She kept to herself, like a hermit,” she said. “She didn’t bother her neighbors. She wouldn’t answer the door.”<\/p>\n

An employee at the city Medical Examiner’s Office said the body had decayed to the point where Copeman was mostly bone.<\/p>\n

“She was past decomposing; she was totally gone,” the city worker said. “She’d been dead a long time. It wasn’t gruesome; it was just sad.”<\/p>\n

Neighbors said they last saw Copeman alive in December 2005 — and they claimed that they called 311 and 911 numerous times, but that nothing happened.<\/p>\n

Peter Bishop, 35, a Staten Island limo driver, said he finally filed a missing-person report after failing to get results from calling the cops, calling his aunt, and knocking on Copeman’s door.<\/p>\n

“We called the police all the time,” he said. “They would come, but they wouldn’t do anything.”<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the police — this time, armed with the missing-person report — forced open the door to Copeman’s home and came across her body.<\/p>\n

They also found a 4-foot-high stack of mail.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not gruesome, just sad: The skeletal remains of a reclusive elderly woman, fully clothed as if she’d been about to go out, were found in her Brooklyn home yesterday — two years to the month since neighbors last reported seeing her. Christina Copeman, 70, was found lying on her side in the second-floor hallway of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}