A North Carolina woman who bought her neighbor’s used standalone freezer thought she got a steal for only $30. But upon opening it, her delight turned to shock when she discovered her neighbor’s mother dead and frozen solid inside.
When a woman from Goldsboro, North Carolina, discovered her neighbor was preparing to move away, the $30 deal for the freezer was struck. She moved the freezer into her home, plugged it in, but left it for three weeks unopened.
When she was finally ready to use the freezer, she was shocked by what she found inside.
“My heart was in my throat and I ran outside, called 911,” the neighbor said.
The freezer’s new owner said her recently moved neighbor insisted that the unit stay closed for several weeks because inside was a “church project” in the form of a “time capsule” that must stay undisturbed.
The ex-neighbor told her that members of a nearby church would come by in a few weeks to open the freezer and remove the “project.” But when no one came, the woman decided to open the freezer herself to see what was inside.
“I had already made the decision that I really needed to open it because everything was just so sketchy,” she added. “And I had even had the idea that maybe her mom was in there.”
“I went in there and I opened it up,” she said. “Lifted the lid and I saw a foot. And I put the lid back down and I tried to analyze what I just saw. And it looked fake so I opened it again and I looked again. But then I recognized the foot. It was her mother’s foot.”
Goldsboro police confirmed that inside the freezer were the remains of the ex-neighbor’s mother.
“She sold me her frozen mother for $30. How do you do something like that?” the buyer told the media.
The neighbor’s mother hadn’t been seen since last September, but was well-liked by locals.
“(She was) Just the sweetest lady. I mean quiet, kept to herself, stayed at home. Just unbelievable how she could just stick her mom in a freezer,” the woman said.
Police have discovered that the ex-neighbor told several different stories to different people about why she was moving away. She has yet to be located.
By some accounts, the elderly woman’s body had been dismembered. The remains have been sent to the county medical examiner’s office and an investigation has been launched into the death. The hunt is also on for the dead woman’s daughter.
This is far from the first time someone has used a freezer to put a murder on ice. Last year, a Detroit Mother told the media that she was not sorry she tortured and murdered her two children and then hid their tiny bodies in her freezer. She insisted that the murders were in retaliation for the children’s bad behavior.
In another case, a Florida woman is being charged for the death of her 11-year-old daughter, found in the family freezer.
#1: TrappedInMd To: cranky (#0)
This makes you wonder if the whole story was made up.
TrappedInMd posted on 2016-06-02 07:59:56 Reply Private Reply
#2: GrandIsland To: TrappedInMd (#1)
Cranky specializes in far fetched tabloid type stuff.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-06-02 08:07:51 Reply Private Reply
#3: cranky To: TrappedInMd (#1)
fwiw, here's the local coverage:
A Goldsboro woman was shocked when she looked into a used freezer she bought and found parts of a dead body inside.
“My heart was in my throat and I ran outside, called 911,” said the woman, who asked that she not be identified.
The woman did allow CBS North Carolina cameras into her apartment Tuesday to see where she had kept the deep freezer for the three weeks before opening it and making the gruesome discovery.
The woman said she bought the freezer from her neighbor, but that she didn’t immediately open it because that neighbor told her it was being used as a “time capsule.”
The seller of the freezer said it was part of a class project she was doing with her church Sunday School class.
“A church was supposed to come, pick up the items inside the freezer. I was supposed to get the freezer back. The church never came. I decided to open it,” the freezer buyer said.
The buyer called 911 after seeing the contents of the freezer.
“I have a serious problem. My neighbor sold me a deep freezer. I just opened it and there’s a body in there I think,” she told the 911 dispatcher. “I am freaking out.”
Police confirmed the human remains were found Friday inside 1723-B Holly Street in Goldsboro.
The woman who discovered it said she believes it was the body of the neighbor’s elderly mother inside the freezer.
“She sold me her frozen mother for $30. How do you do something like that??” the woman said.
The mother had lived with her daughter for years, but hadn’t been seen since September.
“(She was) Just the sweetest lady. I mean quiet, kept to herself, stayed at home. Just unbelievable how she could just stick her mom in a freezer,” the freezer buyer said.
The woman said that the day after she bought the freezer, the neighbor who sold it to her then left town.
The freezer seller said she was headed to West Virginia to be with her mother, who was now staying at a nursing home, the woman who bought the freezer said.
It’s just one of many stories she told people in this tight-knit community, folks said. Stories that many people say just don’t add up.
On June 1, remains were positively identified by the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office. The woman’s death was determined to be natural and with no signs of foul play.
Authorities are not releasing the identity until the next of kin has been notified.
Goldsboro police are investigating the incident as felony concealing or failing to notify the death of a person.
cranky posted on 2016-06-02 22:05:35 Reply Private Reply
#4: TrappedInMd To: cranky (#3)
They should. Her excuse sounds idiotic and made up.
Thanks for the additional info.
TrappedInMd posted on 2016-06-03 08:49:25 Reply Private Reply