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NEW YORK (AP) A man found a decomposed body in his dead mother's freezer as he was clearing out her Manhattan apartment, police said. He found the body this week in a chest freezer that had been sealed with duct tape, the Daily News reported.
Investigators said the body appeared to have been stored for over 10 years, building superintendent Asmir Basim said Friday. The body was so decayed that authorities couldn't determine its sex, Basim said.
Authorities are investigating, and an autopsy is planned, city officials said in a written statement.
The deceased tenant never gave permission for work to be done in the Hamilton Heights apartment, Basim said,
adding that she seemed like a lovely lady, always very pleasant.
https://www.krqe.com/news/man-goes-to-clear-out-dead-moms-home-finds-body-in-freezer/
LisaL
(44,962 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Should be an interesting story.
Polybius
(15,239 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I know. Bad joke, but I could not resist. It is how I cope with weird news stories that never seem to come back with a followup later.
These are the types of news stories where we might never find out what happened. It is happening during a news cycle with other stories that will push it off the radar completely. I have seen just enough intriguing stories like this through the years to just joke about it because it seems to happen a lot more than people would think. Usually, there is no followup and you never know what happened or what the story behind it is.
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)Well, okay then.
no_hypocrisy
(45,783 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)were squirrels and birds.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)but I only had to deal with 30 years of old utility bills and tax returns.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)...happened in our small town, around 30 years ago.
Kid was grounded. Wanted to go to HS football game.
Mom says no.
Yelling, yelling.
Kid kills mom, stuffs her in freezer.
Goes to game and about HS life for a couple weeks until cops started getting concerned neighbors that she wasn't seen for a while but the car was always sitting there.
It's not 10 years, but about as creepy!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)My first reaction was to laugh when the building supervisor said she seemed so nice.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)My first thought was the same.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)I get the impression the mom was elderly, though that's never explicitly stated. Who did she kill 10 years ago and why??
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)Maybe she couldn't separate for some reason. Crazy stuff like that happens.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)A mom passed away. The child was cleaning up the house and found a tiny body in the refrigerator freezer. The autopsy determined that the body was really old and related to the child. Last I heard, authorities thought that the mom had a miscarriage many years back and could not let go of the dead child.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I mean, if when my parents died I found out my dad liked to dress in lingerie then thats like huh weird. But a body in the freezer! I feel for the kid!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)canetoad
(17,090 posts)From the NY Daily News...
"Cops are trying to learn the name of the deceased, and how the person died. Theyre also investigating the possibility the decomposed body is the dead womans mother, according to building staff."
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Maybe the motive of hiding the body was financial?
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Squinch
(50,774 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)If Miss Emily had had electricity, maybe she wouldn't have left the corpse to rot in her bed. Those big freezers sure come in handy.
2naSalit
(86,071 posts)Wonder what the whole story is.
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)Kaleva
(36,147 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)Kaleva
(36,147 posts)genxlib
(5,508 posts)So tell us how difficult it was for you to get a body into the freezer.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)Kaleva
(36,147 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)So Ive heard, on crime shows.
But in this case, the son would have known if Nana dropped out of sight.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)daughter (son's mother) could have continued to collect Nana's social security checks (assuming Nana was getting social security).
intheflow
(28,408 posts)but is still supposed to be living with Mom? I don't see that having happened.
Archae
(46,262 posts)A guy was cleaning out his deceased Mom's house, and he saw a box in the fridge's freezer, it had a dead baby in it!
Had been there for decades.
Never saw any follow-up to this.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Authorities thought that the mom miscarried a long time earlier and hung on to the dead child.
Vogon_Glory
(9,086 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)name. Maybe the mom died and the woman had financial reasons to keep that secret.