The death of an elderly woman who was presumed to have died of natural causes has been re-classified as a murder, after an undertaker spotted a knife wound in the woman’s neck that police had missed.
The New York Times says officers from the NYPD ‘may face discipline after they failed to realize that an 82-year-old Brooklyn woman had been killed.’
The officers who attended the scene in November apparently ‘did not notice a stab wound in her neck.’
They concluded that Myrtle McKinney, who had been in poor health and was found on her kitchen floor, had died from natural causes.
The stab would was found by an undertaker preparing Myrtle’s body for burial.
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Police said there was no sign of a break-in, and Myrtle’s ailments included diabetes and hypertension.
No autopsy was performed.
