A 49-year-old Monroe woman has been arragined after police discovered she had been living for weeks in a house with the body of her boyfriend — the latest in a series of similar cases across metro Detroit over the last year and a half.

Monroe Police said officers were called to a residence on the 600 block of Harrison Street at 3 p.m. Wednesday for a welfare check. Family members told police they had not heard or seen the 61-year-old man in a few weeks.

Police were unable to reach him, so they contacted the property owner to gain access inside the man's house.

When the officers arrived at the house the second time, the girlfriend, Angela Shock, answered the door. Police were able to quickly determine there was a body in the house. The woman confirmed her boyfriend died several weeks ago, but she continued to stay in the house anyway.

Police later confirmed Shock lived with the man's corpse for a month, and was using his bank card.

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Police said the woman was transported to a local hospital for a medical evaluation and interviewed by officers the following day. Shock was eventually arrested and lodged at the Monroe County Jail on charges of concealing the death of another.

Cases of Michiganders living with corpses are becoming more frequent over the last year and a half in metro Detroit.

In December 2017, a Monroe man was found living with his girlfriend's corpse for about a month. Police said the man, 49-year-old David Hall, could not give officers a reason why he did not report his girlfriend's death, and started panicking at one point.

Last April, a 62-year-old woman was found living with her dead boyfriend in Warren. Police discovered she had been living with the corpse for several months, and the man's body was badly decomposed.

Then last July, a Detroit mother was discovered living with her daughter's dead body for 8 months.