Body of Navy Veteran Found in Apartment Where He Had Been Dead For Three Years

A missing Navy Veteran who was found dead inside his apartment had been deceased for three years.

According to ABC News, Ronald Wayne White, who would have been 51-years-old at the time of his death in 2016. He worked as a defense contractor and traveled around the world for work.

White’s body was found last week when officials at the DeSoto Town Center Apartment complex were investigating multiple units where tenants had not been using water.

Investigators had to bolt open White’s apartment door, where they found him dead on the kitchen floor. The medical examiner later estimated that he had been dead there for three years.

White’s devastated family is now searching for answers as to how exactly this could have gone unnoticed for such a long period of time, especially after they repeatedly reported his absence to the authorities.

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“When the medical examiner told me three years, my knees gave away. Three years? And that’s what I can’t get past in my brain. I can’t get past three years,” his mother Doris Stevens said. “My biggest question is, how in the world could my son have been dead in that apartment and nobody knows anything?”

Stevens, who lives in Long Island, New York, knew something was wrong, she said that her son had been in touch with her on a regular basis.

“My son would call me at least twice a month,” his mother told WFAA. “He would call me from Egypt. He would call me from the Philippines. He would call me right from Dallas.”

Stevens allegedly reported White missing to multiple police departments and law agencies and even considered trying to hire a private investigator but didn’t have enough money to do so.