A young woman from Greater Manchester, UK was discovered dead in her bed, one year after she passed away and four years after her last contact with her family.
According to the Daily Mail, the body of 23-year-old Charlotte Leader, from Bolton, England, was found on August 6, 2025 during a police welfare check at her apartment.
Staff from the management company in charge of her property grew concerned when they were unable to access the home for a utility inspection, culminating in a truly shocking find when police eventually gained entry.
Leader was founded dead under the blankets in her bed, with an inquest into her death – concluded this week – determining that she had passed away last summer.
The Mail say detectives were met with a large pile of letters at the her front door, while there was food in her fridge that had sell-by dates stretching back to July 2024.
One particularly heartbreaking find was that Leader’s final conversation appears to have been with AI. According to the authorities, her final message, sent to ChatGPT on July 30, 2024, read: “Help me, I’ve went and got food again.”
The AI assistant responded: “You sound conflicted about having food,” to which she replied: “It’s food that I didn’t want and that’s frustrating.”
At the inquest, Detective Inspector Paul Quinn told the court: “There were others all in the same context – there’s no conversations with anybody, her only contact was with ChatGPT.”
Leader’s mother, Chantay Simm, revealed that her family lost contact with the 23-year-old in September 2021. She said they had tried to find her but she was “impossible to locate”.
Neighbors of Leader, meanwhile, reportedly told the police that she rarely left her flat. As per the Mail, the young woman had declined a mental health appointment in 2022 before breaking contact with the service.
“In time, she becomes a stranger from the family, she pushes people away, and she disengages from the services as well,” the judge at the inquest into her death said.
Detective Inspector Quinn, though, insisted that when officers had searched her apartment, they had found “no suggestion she intended to take her life or anything to suggest she would do anything untoward.”
Instead, he described her home as “immaculately clean”, with Leader’s sister, Caroline Calow, stating it “looked like someone who cared” rather than “the flat of someone who had given up.”
Dr Andrew Coates, from Royal Bolton Hospital, revealed that examining Leader’s remains was “difficult” as her body had “mummified”. He opined that it was not unreasonable for this process to take roughly a year to occur.
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