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Bodies Found In Freezers

Here's a nasty one. Just try to imagine what went through the mind of the poor young guy, searching through the family chest freezer for a frozen pizza. :shock:
Babies found in freezer of German family

Kate Connolly in Berlin. The Guardian, Tuesday May 6 2008

A woman handed herself in to police yesterday after her teenage son discovered three baby corpses in the family freezer in western Germany.

The 44-year-old, identified only as Monika H, was arrested by police who have charged her with manslaughter in what may be the latest case in a wave of infanticide to hit the country.

Forensic experts in Dortmund were defrosting the babies yesterday. They said they expected to carry out postmortems at the earliest today.

The discovery was made on Saturday when the woman's son went to the freezer in the cellar of the family home in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, to fetch a pizza while his parents were out.

He stumbled across three plastic bags containing what police described as the corpses of newborn babies.

"He realised that most of the food was out of date," said Herbert Fingerhut of the Hagen murder investigation department. "He dug down to the bottom of the freezer and stumbled across a bag which was open and through the opening he could see the head and the arm of a baby."

The teenager then found a further two bodies, one of which was wrapped in a tea towel, another in a newspaper dating from 1988. He and his 24-year-old sister, a student, confronted their parents with the find when they returned home.

Monika H and her unnamed 47-year-old husband, an electrician, went to the police station with their daughter. Monika H, who has three children aged between 18 and 24, was said to be in a state of shock and as yet unable to face questioning.

The family said it failed to notice when she had been pregnant in the past. "This is not as far-fetched as it sounds because she had a robust figure," Fingerhut said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/06/germany.internationalcrime

Update: The mother was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison in December 2008.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7759055.stm
 
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Investigation launched after cook's body found in school freezer

A police investigation has been launched after a cook was found dead in a freezer at the primary school where she worked.

The body of Linda Gent was discovered at South Benfleet primary school, in Benfleet, Essex, on Saturday September 27, Essex police said.

The 53-year-old had been reported missing 15 hours earlier.

Police sources said detectives were not treating the case as murder and a report for a coroner was being prepared.

A police spokesman said a post-mortem examination had failed to reveal a cause of Gent's death and further tests were being carried out.

"[We] were contacted at 2.30am on Saturday September 27 by a member of the public who was concerned for the welfare of Linda Gent," the spokesman said.

"A search of the school was carried out and, shortly after 6pm, a woman's body was found on the premises."

A source close to the inquiry said the body "was found in a freezer at the school".
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Buggered if i can find a 'living with the dead' thread, though i'm sure we have one, so i'll drop this here for now:

Woman's body is found in freezer

An 83-year-old woman is being questioned after police found the body of an elderly woman in a freezer in a house in south-east London.

The body of Gulbai Freedoon Murzdan, was discovered last Wednesday at the property in Park Mead, Sidcup.

Police are treating the death of the woman as unexplained. Officers are investigating the possibility the body had been in the freezer about 20 years.

The 83-year-old woman has not been arrested, police said.

She has been questioned under caution about the discovery.

A post-mortem examination is due to take place on the woman, who was born in December 1901, at Farnborough Hospital on Friday.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8069547.stm
 
The 83-year-old woman is presumably the daughter, then, although the article doesn't say.

Just out of curiosity, what sort of name do we think "Gulbai Freedoon Murzdan" is? And no-one act all coy, and say "Asian": it's a big place, and I want to narrow it down!
 
I don't know, but i work with an indian woman, so if i remember i will ask her when i'm back in on thursday. She might have a better idea.
 
Thanks - it sounds vaguely Punjabi to me, although I'll concede that the name "Freedoon" isn't quite the oddest thing about the story.
 
Ah, i asked her but did not find out, maybe she wasn't sure, though she did tell me a nice story about a guy in a town near her that kept is dead mother in the house and dressed up as her so he could claim her pension 8)
 
Is 28 years a new duration record for stashing a corpse in a freezer?
Authorities trying to identify body found in freezer

(Reuters) - Maine investigators were working on Monday to determine if a body found in a storage unit freezer is that of a woman who went missing 28 years ago after a fight with her boyfriend, police said.

The storage unit was rented by Frank Julian, 80, who died earlier this month, and was believed to be the last person to see Kitty Wardwell, his girlfriend, alive in the summer of 1983, state police spokesman Stephen McCausland said.

Family members cleaning out Julian's storage unit in Lewiston found the body on Friday and notified police. The medical examiner's office began work on Monday to identify it, McCausland said.

In addition to performing an autopsy, officials may use DNA analysis to determine if the body is that of Wardwell, who was reported missing in July 1983 by a friend.

At the time, Julian said he had left the then 29-year-old woman at a New Hampshire motel after a fight and returned to Maine alone, according to a missing persons report on the state police website.

Wardwell's sister also reported her missing months later.

The investigation said she was likely a victim of foul play. Julian had been questioned over the years about the case, which remained open, McCausland said.

McCausland said police have been in touch with Wardwell's family. He did not expect autopsy or identification results to be returned on Monday.
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SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/authorities-tryin ... 57008.html
 
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Helen Smith was kept on ice for longer, although legally and pending an investigation that never happened:

Helen's father Ron Smith, a retired police officer, refused to accept the conclusion and embarked upon a lengthy campaign to expose what he considered to be a Saudi/British coverup.[2] At her father's insistence, Helen's body was left unburied for over 30 years in storage at Leeds General Infirmary, thought to be the longest time a body has been stored without burial in the United Kingdom.[1]
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You may still have the record there for illicit corpse stashing.
 
Man 'killed and dismembered ex-boxer Shaun Cummins'

A man murdered a former champion boxer and dismembered his body before using his credit cards to go on a shopping spree, a court has heard.
The remains of Shaun Cummins were discovered by police called to his Leicester home by community nurses who had been caring for the 45-year-old.

At Leicester Crown Court, Thomas Dunkley, 29, denied murder but admitted preventing Mr Cummins being buried.
It is alleged Dunkley stole more than £25,000 from Mr Cummins.

Mr Cummins had retired from boxing in 1995 and was paralysed by a motorbike accident in 2004, which left him requiring home care.
Dunkley was described as Mr Cummins' "informal carer".

Prosecutor William Harbage told the court: "There is an overwhelming inference from the evidence that the defendant murdered Shaun Cummins.
"His calculative and deceptive behaviour prevented the discovery of the body."
"Rather than call 999, or notify a doctor, he panicked and chopped him up with a chain saw. His actions were intended to mask the true cause of death.
"He knew the deceased had substantial funds still at his disposal, none of this money had yet come his way."

The court heard Dunkley used the former WBA light-middleweight champion's credit cards to buy a chainsaw, gloves, a mask, overalls and goggles, then "set about the grisly task of dismembering the body."
Dunkley then placed the parts in bin liners before sealing them with tape and putting them into the freezer, it is alleged.
When he ran out of space, Dunkley went to buy another freezer from Comet, the court was told. :shock:

Mr Harbage asked the jury: "Who does that?
"Who goes to those extremes, unless he's responsible for the killing."

Dunkley has admitted four charges of fraud relating to using Cummins' credit cards after his death, as well as cashing cheques from a trust fund.
The trial continues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-le ... e-22342233
 
Portsmouth man who kept dead mother in freezer spared jail

A man has been spared jail for keeping his mother's dead body in a freezer so he could claim her benefits.
Philipe Brough, 54, of Charles Street, Portsmouth pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful and decent burial of Louise Brough, of Tyseley Road, Portsmouth.

The 90-year-old's body was found by police last August when suspicions were raised by council housing officers.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard her body could have been stored in the freezer in her flat for more than five months.

Brough, who was his bed-bound mother's carer, also admitted a charge of fraud for dishonestly failing to tell the Department for Work and Pensions about his mother's death while still receiving more than £5,000 in benefits.

The court heard a post-mortem examination found Mrs Brough had died from natural causes.
Brough was given a 12-month suspended sentence for both charges.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-26515236
 
A strange headline to be sure.

http://www.newser.com/story/225993/woman-neighbor-secretly-sold-me-her-frozen-mother.html?
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(Newser) – A Goldsboro, NC, woman thought her neighbor only wanted to get rid of her freezer because she was moving out of state to be with her aging mother. After the discovery of body parts in the freezer, the truth appears to be a lot more complicated. The unidentified woman paid $30 for the freezer—though it was duct-taped shut—and promised not to open it for a while, accepting the seller's claim that it was a time capsule for a church Sunday school. "A church was supposed to come, pick up the items inside the freezer. I was supposed to get the freezer back," the woman tells WNCN. But when no one showed up for three weeks, "I decided to open it."

Inside was what the buyer claims were frozen body parts belonging to the seller's mother, including a foot, per WTVD. "She sold me her frozen mother for $30. How do you do something like that?" Police have confirmed body parts were discovered, but haven't discussed whose they might be. It isn't clear where the seller is now; she skipped town a day after the sale, the buyer says. At least the buyer seems to be taking the discovery well. "I'm glad that I was the one who was chosen to be able to find her mother so that that poor woman can rest," she says, adding the mother was last seen in the area in September and has "been in a freezer for like eight, nine months possibly."
 
POLICE: Woman found in Goldsboro freezer died from natural causes

Police now have identified the human remains found in a deep freezer on Friday and say the woman died from natural causes.

Goldsboro police say the gruesome discovery was made Friday at an apartment on Holly Street.

The woman who lives there told police she received the freezer from a neighbor about three weeks ago. The woman told WTVD that she believes the body belongs to her neighbor's elderly mother, who hasn't been seen for months.

The woman was told a church was going to pick up the contents of the freezer, and after that she could have it. After not hearing from the church, nor seeing her neighbor, the resident opened up the freezer and saw a human foot.

Police say the body was intact and the medical examiner said there were no signs of foul play. The identity of the body is being withheld until officers are able to notify her family.

Police say they are investigating the crime of concealing or failing to notify the death of a person, which is a felony.
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SOURCE: http://www.witn.com/content/news/Goldsboro-woman-finds-body-parts-in-freezer-381531591.html
 
What a strange case...

To me, the fact that the mother died of natural causes makes the whole thing odder. I know there are lots of cases where people can't cope with the death of a loved one, and keep the corpse/wrap it in plastic/leave it in bed etc, but they don't normally cut them up, do they?
 
Fluttermoth said:
What a strange case...

To me, the fact that the mother died of natural causes makes the whole thing odder. I know there are lots of cases where people can't cope with the death of a loved one, and keep the corpse/wrap it in plastic/leave it in bed etc, but they don't normally cut them up, do they?
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No, and they don't normally pass them onto a neighbour as some kind of used goods.
I suspect mental illness may have something to do with this.
 
A woman has been arrested in North Carolina after her mother's body was discovered in a freezer she sold at a yard sale.

Marcella Jean Lee, 56, was charged on Thursday with concealing and failure to report a death, more than three months after selling the chest freezer to her neighbour for $30.

Ms Lee had told her neighbour not to open the appliance when she sold it to her in May, saying it was being used as a time capsule and that church members would come by at some point to collect the contents inside.

However, the neighbour opened it up later to find the body of Arma Roush, the 75-year-old mother of Ms Lee, whom police had been looking for since the discovery. ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...fter-selling-freezer-containing-mothers-body/
 
Its not that unusual for relatives to continue to cash welfare cheques after a claimant dies but it doesn't often go on for eight years. Nor do they tend to hide the body in a freezer.

SUN CITY CENTER — Authorities in Florida say the heirs of a man who hid his wife's body in a freezer so he could continue collecting her Social Security benefits have repaid the government for the money he took.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release the heirs sold Allan Dunn's condo in Sun City Center and paid $15,743 to the Social Security Administration.

Prosecutors say Margaret Dunn died at home in 2002 and Allan Dunn hid her body in the freezer. He then collected her Social Security benefits until he died in 2010.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
 
A dead couple were kept in a fishmongers freezer, then a mortuary for 15 years. Then their son wanted to keep them in a fridge at his house, then a mausoleum, then take them to the West Bank.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41763599

There is practically nothing about this story that isn't weird.

The couple's bodies were discovered in the basement of a former fishmonger's shop in the city's Gilmore Place in 2002, during an investigation into alleged fraud at a funeral home in West Lothian.
It was claimed that staff at the Broxburn undertakers had been paid to preserve the remains.
Four employees were sacked, although none of those alleged to have been involved in the fraud were charged or prosecuted for any offence.
Following the discovery, Mr and Mrs Marcel's remains were taken to the city's Cowgate mortuary.
Their son Melvyn said he wanted to build a fridge at his Edinburgh home, then build a private mausoleum in the grounds of his property.
He eventually planned to take his parents' bodies to be buried in the West Bank.
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Keep granny on ice; keep granny's checks a'coming in ...
A woman kept her grandmother's body hidden in a basement freezer for 16 years in social security scheme, police say

Last year, police in Pennsylvania found old human remains in a freezer. Now, an investigation has concluded that it was all part of a scam to collect social security checks.

Pennsylvania State Police first found the remains in February 2019, in a house in Dillsburg, according to a news release from the police. After investigating, they identified the deceased as Glenora Delahay, born May 3, 1906.

Cynthia Black, Delahay's granddaughter, has now been arrested and charged with theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, and abuse of a corpse.

Black reported that she found her grandmother's body in their Ardmore home in 2004, and told police her family needed the income Delahay received from social security, according to the police affidavit obtained by CNN.

She put Delahay's remains in a freezer, that was kept in the basement of the Ardmore home, police said.

Then, in 2007, Black transported Delahay from Ardmore to the home in Dillsburg, using Delahay's social security income to pay the mortgage, the affidavit stated.

An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday, and Black was taken into custody Wednesday, the news release stated. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/social-security-scheme-frozen-trnd/index.html
 
A bit odd, probably a sad case.

Police in Japan have arrested a woman after the body of her dead mother was discovered in a freezer in her flat.

Yumi Yoshino, 48, said that she found her mother dead and hid the body 10 years ago because she "didn't want to move out" of the Tokyo home they shared, local media reported, citing unnamed police sources. There were no visible wounds on the frozen body, police said. The authorities could not determine the time and cause of the woman's death.

The body was reportedly discovered by a cleaner after Ms Yoshino had been forced to leave the apartment due to missing rent payments.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55867390
 
The guy who's been busted for operating a meth lab hasn't yet been charged in the death of whomever was found dismembered in a freezer inside an old bus parked beside his house ... Not yet ...
Man arrested after body found in freezer in New Orleans

Authorities investigating the disappearance of a woman who was reported missing found a headless human torso in a freezer inside an old bus parked beside a New Orleans home.

A man who lived at the house was arrested on an obstruction charge after the remains were found, news outlets reported, but no charges were filed in the death itself. ...

WDSU-TV reported that residents said police were in the neighborhood Sunday asking if they smelled anything. Officers returned Tuesday with a search warrant for a house where a bus covered in graffiti was parked.

Officers, who were investigating the whereabouts of a woman last seen in November, found dismembered remains in a freezer that was inside the bus ... Neither the identity of the person nor the cause of death were immediately determined.

Benjamin Beale, 34, was arrested on multiple charges, including obstruction of justice of a death investigation. Beale also was charged with offenses including operating a drug laboratory and distributing methamphetamine. ...
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FULL STORY: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-arrested-body-found-freezer-orleans-82221727
 

Missing man’s body may have been in disused pub freezer for years​

The body of a man who went missing in London 10 years ago may have been hidden in a freezer for years, detectives believe.

Roy Bigg’s remains were found in the basement of a disused pub in ast London on October 15 last year.

But he was initially reported missing in February 2012, aged 67 – though police have yet to establish when he was last seen.
A post mortem examination was inconclusive following the grisly discovery by builders in what was Simpson’s Wine Bar on Romford Road, Forest Gate.

Now officers are appealing for more information to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

Detective Chief Inspector Kelly Allen said: ‘We believe that Roy’s body may have been in the freezer for a number of years.

‘Speaking to people who knew him will help us establish not only his lifestyle and habits, but also when he was last seen.’

Builders working at the site discovered his remains in the freezer and he was identified through dental records.
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You'd hope the people who last run the pub would be the first on the police investigation list.
 
Bump ... Here's a twist on the usual body-in-a-freezer stories. Usually the freezer is the place where a murderer hides the body. In this case the freezer was the cause of death - i.e., arguably the murder weapon.
Georgia man accused of leaving grandmother in freezer to die

Police say a northwest Georgia man killed his grandmother by stuffing her in a freezer while she was still alive.

Floyd County Police discovered the body of 82-year-old Doris Cumming late Thursday in the Armuchee home she shared with her grandson, 29-year-old Robert Keith Tincher III.

Tincher is charged with murder, aggravated battery and concealing the death of another. ...

Police say they believe Cumming was injured in a fall in December. Instead of seeking help, investigators say Tincher dragged her through the home. ...

Police say he wrapped her in plastic bags and placed her in a large freezer even though he still saw breathing and movement.
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FULL STORY: https://www.abc15.com/news/national/georgia-man-accused-of-leaving-grandmother-in-freezer-to-die
 
hunck said:

Missing man’s body may have been in disused pub freezer for years​

The body of a man who went missing in London 10 years ago may have been hidden in a freezer for years, detectives believe.

Roy Bigg’s remains were found in the basement of a disused pub in ast London on October 15 last year.

But he was initially reported missing in February 2012, aged 67 – though police have yet to establish when he was last seen.

You'd hope the people who last run the pub would be the first on the police investigation list.
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This reads like the plot of a TV police 'cold cases' drama I saw a while ago, can't think for the life of me which - Waking the Dead? New Tricks? Unforgotten?
 
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