THE bodies of a 95-year-old mom and her son, 64, have been found in a luxury New York City apartment.
Cops went to the 535 W, 23rd St apartment at around 3pm on Saturday afternoon, after the mom’s daughter said she could not get hold of anyone inside, according to police sources speaking to the New York Post.
Agnes Wedell and William Wedell were found dead in the apartment – Anges on a couch and the son in a bed – and it’s thought their remains had been “left for several days”.
Sources told The Post they don’t believe the deaths were the result of foul play.
“We’re just here to be on the safe side,” one source said. “We think they were sick.”
William is said to have been an actor who had bit parts in films such asIt Could Happen To You with Nicholas Cage and Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors.
“They had a very quiet, almost hermit-like life,” the daughter Julianna Wedell said.
She told The Post her mom had been unwell for about a month.
The medical examiner believes that the mom was dead for at least a week and her son likely for two days, according to law-enforcement sources, The Post reported.
“My brother mentioned that our mother’s health was declining before the holidays,” Julianna said. “He said she wasn’t eating, sleeping more.
“So, we figured natural causes,” she said of the death of her mother.
“My brother, that was the shocker!” Julianna added.
“He might have had a heart attack, we don’t know,” she said, revealing a younger brother previously died from a congenital heart condition that she called “a hereditary kind of thing.
“We’re still waiting to hear back from the medical examiner. He said they would contact us when they found the cause,” she told The Post.
The mom appeared to have died before her son, who had been dead for several days, the sources said.
Febreze bottles were found throughout the apartment and several bottle of Tylenol were recovered from the son’s room.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
