Police investigate after body found in deceased estate in Sydney
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Homicide detectives are investigating after a second body was discovered at a deceased estate in Sydney's lower North Shore.
On Tuesday, police were called to the home on Greendale Street, Greenwich by cleaners who had made the gruesome discovery while they were clearing the dishevelled property.
The ABC understands that last August carers discovered the first body, believed to be the owner.
Police say the body found this week had been at the home for a "considerable time" and they are treating the death as suspicious.
One neighbour described the owner as a hoarder who kept to himself.
"He was a really solitary guy, he wore the same thing all the time and just walked up and down Greenwich Road," she said.
"He lived alone and was a really routine lonely guy."
The neighbour has lived in the area for six years.
"He was late 50s or 60s, had the same brown jacket on, he was childlike in a way, he just had no expressions, nothing," she said.
"You'd say hello and he'd just mutter hello or just not notice.
"He lived in this tiny little house on the corner, it's completely overgrown and you can see rubbish in the garden."
Detectives from the State Crime Command's Homicide Squad have been called in to investigate the circumstances behind the death.
A post-mortem is being conducted this afternoon to establish the cause of death and gender.
Topics: death, community-and-society, police, crime, greenwich-2065, nsw
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