The body of the Weld County woman who disappeared from her Lochbuie home seven years ago was found in September inside a detached garage feet from her house by a man who was sorting through junk on the property before it was sold.

The man was at first unsure whether the bone he found was part of a Halloween decoration — fake skeletons were set up around the property at the time — and consulted with a neighbor. The two men then realized the remains were real and called 911, said Sean Ackerman, stepson of Terri Ann Ackerman, the woman who disappeared in 2018.

“I got a phone call… and she said, ‘Are you sitting down?'” Sean said.

Weld County officials have since identified the remains discovered on Sept. 10 as Terri’s, but police had not said where on the property the body was found or w

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