Daughter wonders how cops could ticket minivan for weeks - and never notice dad's decomposing body

Daughter wonders how cops could ticket minivan for weeks - and never notice dad's decomposing body
The daughter of a man whose badly decomposed body was found inside a minivan said Thursday traffic cops should have noticed her father over the several weeks they covered the vehicle in parking tickets.

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"He was my only family," said Jennifer Morales, 29, about her father, whom she believes died from a heart attack while sitting in the family's 2000 Chevrolet Ventura in Queens.

"The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets," she told the Daily News last night.

Although sources said 59-year-old George Morales was homeless, his daughter said the diabetic handyman lived with her and her two kids in Washington Heights.

Jennifer Morales said she had last heard from her dad in early May. She said she contacted police, but cops had no record of a report.

A city marshal found the elder Morales Wednesday morning, while trying to tow the minivan parked on 34th Ave. under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass.

Parking tickets and dust covered the vehicle.

Cops called Jennifer Morales hours after the 6:45 a.m. discovery with the sad news.

"In the autopsy, they said they just found skeletal remains, no organs, only his heart," she said.

The Morales family plans to cremate him once officials positively identify the remains using X-rays taken of Morales in 2007 at Elmhurst Hospital Center.

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