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Bodies Found In Freezers

This Florida woman put her elderly mother's body in a freezer so the mother's benefits checks would continue arriving.
Police: Florida woman hides mother’s body in freezer

A Florida woman was charged with failing to report her mother's death more than two months after the woman's body was found in a freezer in the home they shared.

The woman, 64, was arrested Thursday and also charged with tampering with evidence. Her 93-year-old mother's body was found after a welfare check was conducted in late April, according to the Sebastian Police Department's Facebook page. The daughter told investigators she bought the deep freezer and put her mother's body in it so she could keep receiving her disability payments.

The department said an investigation showed the woman died of natural causes and that she was dead for two weeks before her body was put in the freezer. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2022/07/09/police-florida-woman-hides-mothers-body-in-freezer/
 
Judge sets stiff bail bond.

A Chicago woman is accused of keeping her mother’s body in a freezer for nearly two years while living in a nearby apartment.

Eva Bratcher, 69, appeared in court on Thursday after being charged with hiding her 96-year-old mother’s death and having a fake identification card.

Regina Michalski’s body was found this week in a garage freezer near the apartment they had shared, police said. Investigators believe she died in March 2021. The cause will not be determined until the body has thawed.

The allegations are “very disturbing”, judge David Kelly said while setting a 20,000 dollar (£16,409) bond for Bratcher. Mr Kelly turned down a defence lawyer’s request for a lower bond to get Bratcher out of jail.

Investigators said they are trying to determine if Bratcher was collecting her late mother’s benefits, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41063378.html
 
escargot said:
A development-
Man in Court over Body in Freezer Murder

10:49am (UK)
Man in Court over Body in Freezer Murder

By Lucy Rodgers, PA News


A 27-year-old man accused of murdering a victim whose body was found in a freezer was remanded in custody when he appeared in court today.

Matthew Sidney Roberts, of no fixed abode, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth at Bath Magistrates’ Court during the short hearing.

Roberts, who was wearing a white hooded jump suit, navy blue T-shirt and navy blue jogging bottoms, is accused of murdering David Heal between January 3 and January 4 of this year.

Mr Heal, 64, was identified by his fingerprints after his body was discovered in the freezer of the bungalow where he lived in Oaklands, Paulton, near Bath, last Tuesday.

Roberts was arrested in connection with the death on Friday and was charged with murder on Monday night.

The case was sent to Bristol Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on Monday January 26.
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Almost 20 years later they are still talking about this locally. Pre Covid a friend "Jane"new to area and recently widowed went to a community lunch , hopefully of meeting people . Sat next to a very chatty lady, they swopped names and she said she was new to area , recently widowed. Friendly lady said she was a widow to nod recounted the story at length with gusto and I put from others at table. Put Jane right off her lunch.
 
Were the assets frozen?

A man has admitted keeping his former flatmate's body in a freezer for nearly two years but denied using his bank card to obtain cash.

John Wainwright, 71, died in September 2018 and was discovered in August 2020.

Damion Johnson pleaded guilty at Derby Crown Court to keeping the body in the freezer of a property in Birmingham. The offence is believed to have taken place when the pair lived in a flat in the city centre. Mr Wainwright's cause of death is yet to be ascertained. The pair had lived together in Cleveland Tower, Holywell Head.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-65467365
 
Man hid dead father in freezer so he could talk to him

A pensioner stored the body of his deceased 101-year-old father in the freezer for over a year so “he could talk to him”.

‌The 82-year-old man told a local newspaper in the Netherlands that, “I did not want to let him go, or I would miss him".

‌De Limburger newspaper reported that the man put his father into cold storage after he died of natural causes 18 months ago.

The corpse was discovered in the town of Landgraaf after a family doctor raised concerns about the father’s health.

‌Police do not suspect the son of killing his father but are investigating whether a crime has been committed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/10/man-hid-dad-body-freezer-landgraaf-netherlands/

maximus otter
 
Would have been better if police had caught him.

A Minnesota man found dead in a chest freezer of an empty home had been on the run from authorities and had used the vessel as a means to hide, police have revealed.

Brandon Lee Buschman, 34, was discovered in the freezer in the basement of the unoccupied home on June 26, according to the Gilbert Minnesota Police Department.

Buschman, from Babbit, had an active warrant out for his arrest and it is believed that he became stuck in the freezer after climbing into it. Witnesses confirmed with authorities that they last saw the man fleeing from the upstairs part of the home because of possible police presence in the area.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/man-found-dead-freezer-after-30431660?int_source=nba
 
ramonmercado said:
Would have been better if police had caught him.

A Minnesota man found dead in a chest freezer of an empty home had been on the run from authorities and had used the vessel as a means to hide, police have revealed.

Brandon Lee Buschman, 34, was discovered in the freezer in the basement of the unoccupied home on June 26, according to the Gilbert Minnesota Police Department.

Buschman, from Babbit, had an active warrant out for his arrest and it is believed that he became stuck in the freezer after climbing into it. Witnesses confirmed with authorities that they last saw the man fleeing from the upstairs part of the home because of possible police presence in the area.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/man-found-dead-freezer-after-30431660?int_source=nba
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You'd think he'd notice this prominent feature of his hiding place -

'Police shared that the chest freezer was an older model, unable to be opened from the inside'

Must have been a very old freezer, pre-1956.
 

Missing German real estate tycoon’s dismembered body found stuffed in freezer​

The dismembered corpse of German real estate tycoon Hans Peter Mack, 62, was discovered stuffed in black bin liners at around 11pm on Monday in Pattaya, Thailand

Mack lived in Pattaya with his Thai wife and worked as a real estate broker, according to local media reports. He had been a resident of Thailand for several years.

Tawee said police determined that a large amount of money was missing from Mack's bank account, which they suspect is linked to the slaying. The police chief refused to elaborate but said investigators were looking into several suspects, both German nationals and Thai.
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ramonmercado said:
Would have been better if police had caught him.

A Minnesota man found dead in a chest freezer of an empty home had been on the run from authorities and had used the vessel as a means to hide, police have revealed.

Brandon Lee Buschman, 34, was discovered in the freezer in the basement of the unoccupied home on June 26, according to the Gilbert Minnesota Police Department.

Buschman, from Babbit, had an active warrant out for his arrest and it is believed that he became stuck in the freezer after climbing into it. Witnesses confirmed with authorities that they last saw the man fleeing from the upstairs part of the home because of possible police presence in the area.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/man-found-dead-freezer-after-30431660?int_source=nba
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Buschman took a metal rod into the freezer to poke through and pop the catch. He must've been sure this would work even though he couldn't test it from the outside. Gambled and lost.
 
Man who kept OAP’s corpse in freezer confesses to also raiding his bank account

Damion Johnson, 53, pleaded guilty in May to keeping 71-year-old John Wainwright’s corpse.

He had denied three counts of fraud by false representation and was due to face trial in November.

The offences relate to Johnson using Mr Wainwright’s bank card to withdraw money from ATMs, pay for goods and transfer money to his own account between September 2018 and May 2020.

Today he changed his plea to guilty.

The pair lived together in central Birmingham.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/8867132/damion-johnson-plea-guilty-bank-account-fraud/

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Man who kept OAP’s corpse in freezer confesses to also raiding his bank account

Damion Johnson, 53, pleaded guilty in May to keeping 71-year-old John Wainwright’s corpse.

He had denied three counts of fraud by false representation and was due to face trial in November.

The offences relate to Johnson using Mr Wainwright’s bank card to withdraw money from ATMs, pay for goods and transfer money to his own account between September 2018 and May 2020.

Today he changed his plea to guilty.

The pair lived together in central Birmingham.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/8867132/damion-johnson-plea-guilty-bank-account-fraud/

maximus otter
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Update:

“Damion Johnson was sentenced to two years in prison after previously admitting to preventing the lawful and decent burial of the body of John Wainwright, as well as three counts of fraud.

Derby Crown Court heard on Tuesday that Mr Wainwright, 71, died in September 2018 and was not found until August 2020 in the freezer on the premises of a skip company.

In December 2019 the defendant was arrested for unrelated matters, and while police did not search the property, they barred Johnson from returning, and the flat was boarded up on December 6 with the freezer unplugged inside.

Several people later attended the flat to conduct safety checks and noted a strong smell, described as “horrendous” and “unbearable”.

On August 21 2020, a removal team took the freezer away, and while noting the smell, mistook this for rotting food before Mr Wainwright’s body was found by staff at Budget Skips Services Ltd in Exhall, Warwickshire.

A post-mortem examination, conducted on August 26 2020, noted signs of blunt force trauma, but Mr Whitehead said: “It was not possible to confirm or exclude natural disease as a cause or contributor to death.”

https://development.expressandstar....ing-pensioners-body-in-freezer-for-two-years/

maximus otter
 
Police investigating homicide after human remains found in freezer of Colorado home


Officials in Colorado said they are investigating a homicide after a human head was found in a freezer at a home late last week, according to information from law enforcement and multiple reports.

The frightening discovery took place Friday afternoon at a home in Grand Junction.

The body part found was a severed human head. The local [news] outlet reported it was found in a deep freezer someone came to collect after the new homeowner posted online for people to come get "free stuff." ( :omg: m.o.)

The neighbor said a mother and her son previously lived at the address, and that they moved out same day the house was sold.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...-freezer-grand-junction-colorado/72253097007/

maximus otter
 
From the Metro, this last week (January 2024) -
 

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