Joyce Vincent

Who is Joyce Vincent?

Joyce Carol Vincent was an English woman who is notable because her corpse lay undiscovered in her London bedsit for two years. Unlike many other cases of undiscovered deaths, Vincent had been young, sociable, and had no history of mental illness or substance abuse. Her varied life had seen her meet such figures as Nelson Mandela, Ben E. King, Gil Scott-Heron, and Betty Wright, and she had been to dinner with Stevie Wonder.

In 2001, Vincent resigned from her job at Ernst & Young, and moved into a shelter for victims of domestic abuse. By 2002 she had cut off contact with her friends and family, possibly due to embarrassment regarding her situation or from pressure from a controlling partner. She was found dead in her flat in January 2006, and evidence suggested she died around the December 2003 period.