Missing or dead for nine years: residents find a woman’s body in their freezer

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They actually wanted to have a nice Christmas with their relatives in San Diego, California, but what certain relatives discovered in a freezer left them speechless. A dead woman lay in the middle of the container.

They immediately alerted San Diego police. “Due to the unusual location of the body, the San Diego Police Department’s Homicide Unit was called in to investigate,” the San Diego Police Department wrote in a statement.

Former resident of the house

It has now revealed that the body is that of Mary H.*, who was considered missing or dead for up to nine years. She would have been 81 years old at the time of her discovery.

The exact cause of death has not yet been fully clarified and is currently under investigation by the coroner. However, investigators have already stated that Mary H. was the previous resident of the home.

Investigators could find no obvious traumatic injuries on the body. However, according to police, the case is classified as a suspicious death. San Diego police would now like to speak to anyone who knew her or has other relevant information about her.

Neighbors describe her as a ‘homebody’.

As Pete Carillo, a former San Diego homicide detective, told Fox 5 San Diego, police would likely scrutinize the financial records of the dead. “It concerns embezzlement of a corpse. In such a case you have a duty to inform the authorities,” says Carillo.

He assumes that this procedure has not been circumvented for nothing. “I can only assume it was to perhaps benefit financially from the fact that her death was not reported.” Neighbors who remembered the dead woman described her to ScrippsNews as a “homebody.” (ced)

*Name known

Source: Blick