Remains Found In Heights House Identified As Mary Cerruti

HOUSTON, TX — The remains of a woman found in the attic of a house in the Heights has finally been identified, bringing the mystery of Mary Cerruti's sudden disappearance one step closer to closure. Medical examiners on Tuesday identified the human remains found last March as Cerruti.

This case has been rather strange and bizarre from its inception. Cerruti bought the bungalow at 610 W. Allston in 2001.

In 2013, Cerruti and her Heights neighbors spoke out against a large apartment complex that might go up, which it did — right behind Cerruti’s house after they lost their battle against the developers.

In August of 2014, she stopped paying her mortgage and by 2015, foreclosure began. In February 2015, neighbors alerted the police of her missing, and authorities files a missing persons report.

Once liens on the house were settled, the bungalow was cleaned and placed back on the market, where it was sold to Michael Nassif, who leased the property a year later to a couple who found a human skeleton while cleaning and rearranging.

"I only bought it [the house] about a year ago, I hear the lady died two years ago and police hadn't found anything," Michael Nassif told the Houston Chronicle last year. "I wish they would have discovered her body back then, I'm just an innocent bystander. I'm very sorry about that lady."

The home built in 1930 has been on the market for more than 320 days, according to the listing on realtor.com.

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