Body of Missing Farmington Hills Woman Found

COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, MI — The body of a Farmington Hills woman missing since Sept. 6 was found Thursday on the roof of a Commerce Township Home Depot store, according to media reports.

Elizabeth Joy Hock, 23, was reported missing to Farmington Hills police on Sept. 9.

Earlier this week, authorities circulated her photo after finding her vehicle in the parking lot of the Commerce Crossing Shopping Center at 14 Mile Road and Haggerty.

Authorities are continuing an investigation, but don’t suspect foul play. An autopsy is pending.

“We strongly believe no one else was involved in this death and it doesn’t involve foul play,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told The Detroit News. “It appears just a tragic death of a young woman.”

After police found the vehicle, which still had the keys inside, they began an active search for Hock.

Authorities think Hock’s body was on the roof of the Home Depot store for about a week. Authorities from the Farmington Hills Police Department and Oakland County Sheriff’s Department searched the roof Thursday morning after employees found Hock’s cellphone and some personal items were found near inside a pet supply store near the Home Depot.

The items were on the water heater, which was near a ladder used to access the roof. It’s unclear why she climbed to the roof of the building.

“At this point there is nothing to cause us to believe anything other than for some reason she climbed the roof on her own and then made her way to the adjacent Home Depot roof where she died,” Bouchard said.

Photo via Farmington Hills Police Department