“Out-of-town” family members discovered the body in the freezer last month.
A body found in a San Diego freezer last month may have been that of a woman who has been missing or dead for up to nine years, police said Thursday.
“Out-of-town” family members who were visiting a residence called local authorities when they discovered the body in the freezer, police said in December.
The family members are related to someone who currently lives in the home and are not related to the woman found in the freezer, according to police. Police added the freezer was running when the body was found.
The San Diego police homicide unit was called in to investigate because of the unusual location of the body, police said.
I’m guessing somebody else has been living off of her social security checks this whole time and is moving into the “Find out” stage of their life.
Would social security checks continue for a missing person? That seems like the first thing the police would investigate.
Not if they don’t get reported missing. If the victim didn’t have family or friends checking on her I can totally see that scam working for a bit.
Not only that, they frequently continue for a dead person. The SSA doesn’t keep very good tabs.
The article says there never was a missing person’s report filed for her, so maybe she was never “officially” missing