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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Deputies called to a spacious home in the Sandia foothills to assist with an eviction last month found a 55-year-old woman living there with her husband.

But he had been dead for more than two years.

According to a police report obtained by KOAT-TV, the “partially mummified” corpse of 66-year-old Raul Huerta – wearing a T-shirt and underwear, and covered with a blanket – was lying on a mattress with its head propped up on a pillow in the master bathroom closet.

There were no obvious signs of trauma or abuse on his body, but the Office of the Medical Investigator is working to determine how he died.

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According to the report, deputies with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office were called to the home in the 13000 block of Vic NE on May 26 to serve an eviction notice. When they arrived, no one answered, so they entered the home and found Mary Frietze inside, “disoriented and nervous.”

The house was filthy, and piles of boxes, clothes and household items were stacked in the living room and entrance.

It also smelled “strongly of decay” and deputies followed the smell until they found Huerta’s body in the closet. Then they called Albuquerque police officers.

Frietze was taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital Psychiatric Center for a mental health evaluation, according to the report. The report does not disclose the details of the evaluation and Frietze could not be reached Wednesday.

Police say Frietze had moments of lucidity and told officers Huerta, to whom she had been married for 20 years, had been sick and coughing up bile.

“He chose to lay on the floor in the closet as it helped with pain he told her he was experiencing,” the officer wrote in the report. “He refused to see a doctor. Ms. Frietze believes he passed away in the closet on April 28, 2015, more than two years prior to his discovery by deputies.”

Frietze told police that she had told a couple of people when he died, but they didn’t call the police and neither did she.

She said she did not know what to do or how to cope with his death, so she told people he was “studying for the ministry.”

Neighbors told police they had not seen Huerta in some time, but they were not concerned enough to call for a welfare check.