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Neighbours had expressed concerns about two sisters growing older together in a million-dollar home in an affluent town not far from Boston.

Down a stately tree-lined street in Brookline, Massachusetts, 74-year-old Lynda Waldman and her 67-year-old sister, Hope Wheaton, who were identified by local media, lived in a beautiful but disheveled 1920s home worth CAD$1.5 million, according to online property records.

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But about a year and a half ago, the house grew quiet and “unkept,” according to a later report.

Neighbours who knew them had been asking Waldman why they hadn’t been seeing her sister, according to the Boston Globe.

“We always asked where she was,” Harriet Allen, a neighbor and longtime friend, told the newspaper. “She would ignore it.”

Since the summer, Brookline police officers had conducted three well-being checks after people reported concerns about the house on Clinton Road as well as the two sisters who lived there. Officers had spoken with Waldman more than once, but she refused their help, Lt. Philip Harrington, with the Brookline Police Department, told The Washington Post.