Police are investigating the death of a 57-year-old woman whose body was found decomposing at her Bloomfield Township home on Saturday, Sept. 27, authorities said.
The woman, Ariane C. Grunewald Bluem, appeared to have been "deceased for an extended period of time" when Bloomfield Township officers performed a welfare check at her home on Hedgewood Drive, according to a police release. "She was severely decomposed," officials said.
Her husband, 53-year-old Dirk Grunewald, was found upstairs with multiple knives laid out and initially refused to speak with officers, Bloomfield Township police said. SWAT and crisis negotiators were called, and he was taken into protective custody for a medical and mental health evaluation.
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