Brooklyn grandmother's ‘natural’ death found to be a stabbing one month later

nydailynews.com An elderly Brooklyn woman who seemingly died of natural causes last month was actually murdered — and the crime would have gone unnoticed if a funeral home embalmer hadn’t spotted a suspicious stab wound, the Daily News has learned. Myrtle McKenny, 82, was found dead in the kitchen of her Brownsville apartment Nov. 9. Her death was considered natural at the time, as McKenny was being treated for hypertension and diabetes, police sources said