COPS locate family, 73-year-old twins who died mysteriously together

It took 11 days and the help of dozens of strangers, but police eventually were able to locate the family of a pair of sisters found dead hermit twin home in California last month.

Patricia and Joan Miller for almost 40 years has lived in Mt. Washington, but often shy away from their neighbours. Shared life ended with a mysterious double-death. Police found a sister in a bedroom and another in a rug during a routine security Check on 26 February. He was 73.

Police usually don't release the names of the dead without first informing their families, but the sisters hymns life made it impossible, said detective Matt Harwood with El Dorado County Sheriff's office clip. With little information about the personal lives of twins to work from, researchers issued a public appeal for help in the release of brothers for motion this week.

The response was overwhelming. Emails and phone calls chyteyetai with manual and with the help of amateur genealogists who read media accounts of the sisters death, researchers observed that a first and two second cousins cousin late Wednesday.

The cousins were not heard by the sisters.

"Pretty much Confirmed what everyone else said to me," Harwood said. "It was quite reclusive, and nobody really knows why".

Harwood said of cousins said they had lost contact with the sisters through the years with other members of the family left alive.

"It was just kind of twins who nobody had heard some time ago," he said.

The cousins don't share Parker last name, which may be why the police had a hard time Finding them both. These were attended by apalleipsi sleuths, putting family members police contact information. In one case, someone named one of the cousins to confirm their blood line before giving the name to Harwood.

Harwood said the sisters deserve to have their family know about death, and was pleased to complete the mission with the help of people from across the country, just your average Joe wanting to try their hand with genealogy, "he said.

"There is no way it could not have done it without you guys already in the formula and literally hundreds of people just asking to help along the tracks," Harwood said.

A second cousins living in and around San Francisco Bay, and two other cousins living in Portland, Ore, where grew the twins.

Harwood said he has yet to find a desire, but intends to give some of the twins personal information, including their mother's furniture and family photo albums, cousins.

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