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After Flood Response, Valencia Police Identify Man Found Mummified in Apartment

Investigators see no signs of foul play as a forensic autopsy proceeds.

Overview

  • Authorities named the deceased as Antonio Famoso, who is believed to have died around 2010 at about age 70 or 71.
  • Firefighters and police entered the sixth‑floor flat in La Fuensanta through a window while addressing flooding caused by recent heavy rain and a blocked drain.
  • The clothed body was found mummified on a bedroom bed, with pigeons, carcasses, insects and accumulated rubbish present, and the door locked from the inside.
  • Neighbors said they assumed he had moved to a care home, while automated bill payments and continued pension deposits kept accounts active and mailboxes were periodically emptied.
  • Police report he had long been estranged from a wife and two children, and they are treating the case as a likely natural death pending autopsy findings.