Dead for 3 years and nobody notices...If you disappeared, would anyone come looking for you?...

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. There's a lot in the Guardian link; it sounds like she wasn't working

by this stage (though she had had steady, well-paid jobs until a few years before). Her mother died when she was 11, but it does say some family were involved in the inquest. It also mentions Christmas presents (The Guardian says 'unopened', the other link that she was 'planning to wrap' them; but either way, it implies people you have reasonably regular contact with).

The articles are still fairly hazy about details; it seems to mean the filmmaker never managed to contact the family. There is speculation that she may have been 'cut off' because of a boyfriend or the man she was engaged to at one stage; and she was in a refuge for victims of domestic violence, but there's nothing to say what or by whom the violence was. She had a full life in the 80s and 90s; she got to meet Nelson Mandela, for instance. None of her neighbours where she died knew her.

It is very strange. Maybe there's more in the film, but I'd have thought more could have been found out (if nothing else, the inquest would have had to try to work out when she died, as best they could, which should have meant tracing her last contacts as best as they could after 3 years; and what the family said to the inquest isn't specified).