'FOUL PLAY'
Man’s body found in dead wife’s freezer could have been there for 11 years
COPS made a grisly discovery when they found the body of a dead woman's husband in her freezer that could have been there for over a decade.
Two bodies were unearthed during a routine welfare check on Jeanne Souron-Mathers, 75, who was found dead in her Utah home, reports
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Then, in a gruesome turn of events, police found the second body in her deep freezer during their investigation last Friday.
The frozen "in tact" corpse was later identified as the dead woman's husband, Paul Edward Mathers, 69.
Investigators in Tooele estimate that his body could have been there for any length of time, from 1.5 to 11 years.
“I’ve been here 13 years, and this is one of the strangest cases," said TCPD Sergeant Jeremy Hansen.
"We’ve never had anything like this."
This is one of the strangest cases. We've never had anything like this.
TCPD Sergeant Jeremy Hansen
They were been tipped off that Souron-Mathers had not been seen in a fortnight by a maintenance worker.
Hansen revealed that cops had regularly checked up on Souron-Mathers at at the Remington Park Retirement Apartments.
He described how the routine check up rapidly turned into something more insidious after finding her dead with "no apparent trauma."
The sergeant said that when cops quizzed residents about seeing a man at the apartment, they gave varying times.
Hansen told Fox this is why it's difficult to narrow down a timeline of his death.
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"We truly don’t know at this point how long he had been in the freezer," he said.
Detectives don't suspect anything suspicious in Souron-Mathers' death but her husband's icy grave is a different story.
reports that "foul play is suspected" and cops are looking into his financial records, Veteran Affairs and Social Security checks.
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