ZAGREB, CROATIA – After neighbour Katica Caric last saw her 41 years ago, as she was talking with two unknown men, Hedviga Golik (84) was found dead yesterday, in the bed of her small loft apartment in Zagreb`s 77 Medvescak.

Despite numerous tenants` actions, who noticed nobody was using the flat in 1970, as well as the city services, which requested the apartment to be broken into and examined, nobody reacted to their pleas for nearly four decades.

Police did not want to break into the apartment in 1991

Tenant Mirko Horvatic sent a memo to the police in 1991, which was signed by the tenants’` council, requesting they examine the flat, above all because of their co-tenant’s health and maintenance of the apartment, utility services and rent which all the neighbours have been paying for the late woman for years.

- I honestly don`t know why nobody has broken into the apartment. We requested it so many times, but nobody listened to us – Horvatic told us, explaining that nobody wanted to break into the apartment on their own as it is other people`s property.

Hedviga`s body lied on the bed in the half-lit room

However, the apartment`s ownership status was supposed to have been regulated this year, therefore president of the tenants’ organisation Sime Ungar broke into the apartment yesterday around 4 o`clock with two other neighbours.

- When we entered the half-lit room, I saw a body wrapped up on the bed. We immediately left the apartment and called the police – Ungar explained, adding that they did not smell any stench, which might have warned the tenants of the unfortunate outcome, because the windows inside the apartment were open.

Last seen with two men from a religious sect?

Hedviga`s neighbour Katica Caric (58), who lived on the floor underneath, was the last person to have seen her alive, a long time ago in 1967.

- She was talking with two men then, who were likely to be members of a religious sect, just like she was. Afterwards, she simply vanished and I was convinced she left with these men – Caric told us when we visited her at the nursing home in Ibler Square.

Neighbours: She never talked to anyone, she had psychic problems

Neighbour Caric, who knew late Hedviga best, described her as an introvert who never socialised with anyone and probably suffered from a psychic disorder.

Other neighbour share her opinion, some claimed she was a schizophrenic.

Late Hedviga allegedly worked as a nurse at the Tresnjevka Health Care Centre and neighbours mention a sister. On one occasion, Hedviga gave her the apartment in Medvescak Street, but several months later, gave up the idea.

- She also gave the apartment to a colleague from work, but again, probably because of psychic problems, she gave up on it, just like with her sister – Caric told us.

Mysterious writing on the door

What is more mysterious from the apartment itself, which “guarded” the dead body of Hedviga Golik, is the writing on the door, written with a marker, banning others from breaking into the apartment and entering it, signed by the Zagreb Commission for Census. The neighbours say they know nothing about the matter.

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