Colorado woman missing since 2018 found dead, stuffed in manhole at her home

A Colorado girl’s lifeless physique was discovered stuffed right into a trash bag in a manhole in her residence 4 years after she was reported lacking, based on native experiences.

Cops found 82-year-old Sylvia Frens’ stays after discovering a stench coming from the bed room of her Grand Junction residence, Fox Information reported. A lot of the bed room flooring was lined in a brown stain.

Her 54-year-old son, Richard Vandervelde – who lived together with her on the time of her disappearance – was charged Could 29 with first-degree homicide, tampering with a deceased human physique, fraud-identity theft, motorized vehicle theft, and abuse of a corpse, police mentioned.

Police launched the seek for Frens after her daughter reported her lacking in Could 2018.

All through the course of the four-year search, police found Vandervelde was utilizing his mom’s debit playing cards, withdrawing greater than $10,000 in money from her private checking account.

Vandervelde was additionally discovered to be in possession of his mom’s automobile.

Officers obtained a search warrant the next month, the place detectives discovered a number of objects of “evidentiary worth” at Sylvia’s residence, based on police.

After police pulled Vandervelde over at a visitors cease in Missouri in June 2018, he lied about his identification to cops.

Detectives then traveled to Missouri to query him about his mom’s disappearance. Vandervelde claimed she went to California with a pal in April, insisting that’s all he knew of his mom’s whereabouts.

He additionally mentioned his use of Sylvia’s debit card was licensed by her, based on police.

Quick-forward to March this yr, the present occupant of Frens’ property reported a trash bag inside a manhole in the home, Fox Information experiences.

Police gained permission to look the property over the course of some days, the place they discovered human stays stuffed within the bag.

DNA testing confirmed the stays to be that of Sylvia Frens, police mentioned.

An post-mortem concluded she died from blows to the pinnacle and the style of demise was dominated a murder, police mentioned.

Police situated her son in Pinellas County, Florida, and arrested him on Could 29.

He was extradited again to Colorado earlier this month and is being held on a $1 million bond on the Mesa County Detention Facility. He is because of seem in courtroom on June 21.