Found Deceased SC - Marianne Marsh, 61, was upset, Conway, Horry County, 14 Feb 2020 *endangered*

[Luckyzmom]

Wow ....MOO

 

[TGIRecovered]

I know this happens on occasion but it just defies logic. How awful for the person who finally found her. I’m guessing that it was probably a family member or friend, there to clear out old food or to make sure the house was still secure.

MOO

 

[Dsasleuth]

In her home?

In her home? Indeed. What in the world, jeeze.
Prayers in Jesus' name.

 

[LadyL]

maybe she went up in an attic or something?
very strange
RIP Marianne

 

[meanmaryjean]

Hoarding situation?

 

[Dsasleuth]

"Cars in driveway, cell phone, medication, cigarettes, and wallet in house - this does not strike me as a typical voluntarily missing person."
Did they not look for her when this was discovered. Was she placed back in her house some time later when no one was looking.
Too many oddities here.
IMOO

 

[Coppertop15]

I never understand how you can overlook a grown person.

 

[mlhenn]

"Cars in driveway, cell phone, medication, cigarettes, and wallet in house - this does not strike me as a typical voluntarily missing person."
Did they not look for her when this was discovered. Was she placed back in her house some time later when no one was looking.
Too many oddities here.
IMOO

Agreed! Surely they searched the house when she first went missing. And I read where they stated she lived there alone, but that doesn’t justify her not being found in the house until now. IMO.
Maybe it was a hoarding situation as @meanmaryjean suggested or she was found in an attic as @LadyL suggested?? Lord I hope it wasn’t the scenario you threw out there of someone placing her back in the home after it was initially searched, but it’s possible.
It’s a sad incident regardless. I noticed in the article it stated there will be an autopsy however it may be up to 12 weeks before results.

Coroner’s office: Horry County woman missing since February found dead inside her home

 

[YaYa_521]

In her home? No way.

There better be a really good explanation on its way or there's some 'splainin to do on behalf of LE and "searchers". Hoarding or not, when there's an endangered person missing you clean it out. Clean it out then say you've searched. Otherwise this is negligent. Imagine if she took her last breath immediately after the last person left after "searching". And the smell, really? No one had a clue?

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

<modsnip: off topic>

I am also posting because... IN HER HOME? What happened? I hope this is simply sad (were there such a thing, i.e., natural causes) and nothing more nefarious like foul play... Neither are easy but, well, you know...

 

[MimosaMornings]

Mousketeer's family sues Phoenix police for $1.7 million

They didn’t find Dennis Day’s body for NINE months.

 

[meanmaryjean]

Mousketeer's family sues Phoenix police for $1.7 million

They didn’t find Dennis Day’s body for NINE months.

Exactly!

 

[TGIRecovered]

I absolutely don’t want to knock the family for not finding her. I don’t know how close the family situation was or if they felt like it was wrong for them to go into her house when she wasn’t there.

If the missing person was my mom my friend my sister or anyone else I was close to I would’ve been all up in her house. I would’ve been looking through her junk drawer for lists or notes or cards that might mean something more now that she was missing. I would’ve been looking around in her closet, bedroom in basement for any indication that someone who didn’t belong there had been there. I can see how a smaller size person could have collapsed in an inconspicuous place. People have fallen behind big pieces of furniture or piles of boxes in the attic.

It’s the lack of anyone being there to notice the odors and the insects that come with a decomposing body that confounds me. That should have been apparent throughout the house whether anyone could see her or not.

This really shouldn’t be left up to the family. Police should have done a follow up at some point after she had been missing for several days. They should have noticed the odor. They should have searched the house more thoroughly.

I come from a police family. I’m a big supporter of police. I have had a very devastating and embarrassing 25 years experience with one completely dishonest and cruel police person in particular, but he does not define all of them.

That being said, I’ve always known that if my child or loved one was missing there would be no possible way that any investigator would search as thoroughly and as unrelentingly as I would. I think that most mothers could say the same.

Law enforcement officers encounter missing persons on a regular basis and it is easy to fall into a routine of assuming that the initial investigator got all the information when they took the report and they don’t need to go back to look for more, or that the person doesn’t need to be looked for at all because they must have just up and left of their own accord. Put out an MP report and wait for them to turn up. Again, I’m not saying all police are this way but there are too many who are.
MOO

 

[MimosaMornings]

HCPD, family, and friends continue search for missing Conway-area woman

“Before she went missing Marsh told her adult children that she was upset and needed to “blow off some steam.”

Joy Macbay, Marsh’s daughter, says Marsh has a history of leaving home when she is upset, but has never been gone this long.”

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Wonder who or what upset Marianne? The history of leaving home when she is upset - does that mean for a walk or driving somewhere. What had kept Marianne upset previously and again this time?
Did she actually walk and come home?
How sad prayers for her family.

 

[evilwise]

She seems very small and slim from her photographs. Not every body decomposes in the same way. If she hadn't eaten the day she died either and there was air conditioning or just dehumidification her body may have simply desiccated.

 

[Nancy Drew RN]

Officers also searched Marsh’s Birch Lane home and the nearby area multiple times while she was missing, police say.

On Tuesday, one of Marsh’s relatives noticed a foul odor in her home. Police searched and found the 61-year-old’s remains. Horry County police say Marsh hid in a “remote and obscure” area of the attic.

The area was not visible to others and required Marsh’s small stature to enter.

No foul play is suspect, and there are no criminal charges expected.

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article242209451.html

 

[mlhenn]

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article242209451.html

That helps a little in understanding the circumstance behind her being found in the house....

It turned out she hid herself in a remote area of her home and wasn’t discovered until this week.

 

[mlhenn]

maybe she went up in an attic or something?
very strange
RIP Marianne

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article242209451.html

@LadyL seems you were correct- the attic.

Officers also searched Marsh’s Birch Lane home and the nearby area multiple times while she was missing, police say.

On Tuesday, one of Marsh’s relatives noticed a foul odor in her home.
Police searched and found the 61-year-old’s remains. Horry County police say Marsh hid in a “remote and obscure” area of the attic.

The area was not visible to others and required Marsh’s small stature to enter.

 

[YaYa_521]

Absolutely understandable given these reports. I was expecting the usual "foul play suspected/homicide investigation underway" and "she was located under/in a big obvious something that wasn't searched".

Rest peacefully, Marianne.

 

[Dontknow?]

Terribly sad. Prayers for her family. RIP Marianne.