08-01-2008, 01:48 PM
DETROIT -- It's a case that has Macomb County authorities perplexed.
A 42-year-old woman is found dead in her blood-splattered suburban Detroit condo, with no signs of injury to her body.
Authorities aren't even sure if its Andrea Jean Bean's blood on some walls of the home.
There was no blood on Bean or the bed where she lay.
"It's one that's got us confused," Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel told The Associated Press Wednesday, several hours after an autopsy showed no internal or outward signs of trauma to Bean's body.
"We're still trying to figure out two things: What caused her death and where the blood came from? This is a very challenging one."
Bean's body was found Tuesday afternoon in her Macomb Township home about 25 miles north of Detroit by 19-year-old nanny, Shelby Beel.
Beel was dropping off Bean's three children, ages 9, 6 and 2, for parental visitation when she found the body face down on a bed in an upstairs room.
She told a 911 operator that the home's kitchen and hallway were "covered in blood."
"I need somebody to go check and see if she's breathing," the operator can be heard telling Beel on the 911 recording. "I need somebody to do that. I know it's frightening, but you have to do that. Can you do it? Just take the phone with you."
Beel balked, replying that the body was in a "strange" position on the bed.
"I can't see her face and I can't see her arms from the way she's laying," Beel said. "She's got kind of her head and her neck wedged between her bed and the wall."
She told the operator that Bean's children were outside in the car. The operator had asked Beel if she could take the children to a neighbor's home so they would not have to see the arrival of police and medical personnel.
The case is being treated as an open investigation pending a toxicology report on Bean and samples of blood found in the condo, Hackel said.
"We understand she has had some medical problems and some mental health issues," Hackel said of Bean. "There is nothing to indicate her death was a homicide."
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A 42-year-old woman is found dead in her blood-splattered suburban Detroit condo, with no signs of injury to her body.
Authorities aren't even sure if its Andrea Jean Bean's blood on some walls of the home.
There was no blood on Bean or the bed where she lay.
"It's one that's got us confused," Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel told The Associated Press Wednesday, several hours after an autopsy showed no internal or outward signs of trauma to Bean's body.
"We're still trying to figure out two things: What caused her death and where the blood came from? This is a very challenging one."
Bean's body was found Tuesday afternoon in her Macomb Township home about 25 miles north of Detroit by 19-year-old nanny, Shelby Beel.
Beel was dropping off Bean's three children, ages 9, 6 and 2, for parental visitation when she found the body face down on a bed in an upstairs room.
She told a 911 operator that the home's kitchen and hallway were "covered in blood."
"I need somebody to go check and see if she's breathing," the operator can be heard telling Beel on the 911 recording. "I need somebody to do that. I know it's frightening, but you have to do that. Can you do it? Just take the phone with you."
Beel balked, replying that the body was in a "strange" position on the bed.
"I can't see her face and I can't see her arms from the way she's laying," Beel said. "She's got kind of her head and her neck wedged between her bed and the wall."
She told the operator that Bean's children were outside in the car. The operator had asked Beel if she could take the children to a neighbor's home so they would not have to see the arrival of police and medical personnel.
The case is being treated as an open investigation pending a toxicology report on Bean and samples of blood found in the condo, Hackel said.
"We understand she has had some medical problems and some mental health issues," Hackel said of Bean. "There is nothing to indicate her death was a homicide."
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