{"id":751008,"date":"2013-05-13T17:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=229697"},"modified":"2013-05-13T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:58:34","slug":"n-m-mummified-body-found-was-that-of-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/751008","title":{"rendered":"N.M.: Mummified Body Found Was That Of Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mummified body of a writer was found in her New Mexico home last week, and authorities believe it’s possible she’s been dead for up to a year. <\/p>\n

Barbara Salinas-Norman was known for her children’s books, which she wrote and illustrated to help Mexican-American kids learn about their heritage. She also founded and ran a publishing company, Pinata Publications. However, her last days were most likely sad ones. Friends say she’d had the power and water cut off in her condo due to non-payment of her bills and sometimes slept in her car. When her brother-in-law and sister made a visit last week out of concern, they found her home in complete disarray. <\/p>\n

“If you saw the apartment, you would never walk inside it,” Louis Ponce said<\/a>. “I never knew anybody could be that filthy.”<\/p>\n

The 70-year old author and former teacher was found mummified due to the extreme dry heat in New Mexico; authorities aren’t sure about the time of death, but say it could have been as far back as October.<\/p>\n

“This woman looks like a mummy, essentially,” Santa Fe police spokeswoman Celina Westervelt said<\/a>. “All of her skin has dried out. You could see the skeleton underneath. There were no body fluids anymore.”<\/p>\n

Autopsy results are pending.<\/p>\n

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The mummified body of a writer was found in her New Mexico home last week, and authorities believe it’s possible she’s been dead for up to a year. Barbara Salinas-Norman was known for her children’s books, which she wrote and illustrated to help Mexican-American kids learn about their heritage. She also founded and ran a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39n2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}