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Dying woman confesses to killing husband
Friday, November 19, 2004 Posted: 10:42 AM EST (1542
GMT)
SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (AP) -- A deathbed murder
confession from a Massachusetts woman led to the
discovery of her husband's remains Thursday inside a
freezer at a storage facility, where his body has been
for at least six years, authorities said.
Moments before she died, the woman told one of her
children that she killed her husband in California
several years ago, Middlesex District Attorney Martha
Coakley said. The children informed police.
The woman apparently put the body in a freezer and
shipped it from California to Massachusetts several
years ago, Coakley said.
"It's very bizarre," Coakley said Thursday.
The slaying may have taken place up to 14 years ago,
because that was when the woman apparently began
telling her children that their father had been killed
in a car accident, Coakley said.
Police went to the Planet Self Storage facility in
Somerville on Thursday and found the remains inside a
freezer that was locked and sealed with duct tape, the
district attorney said. There was an odor coming from
the freezer, she said.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause
and approximate time of death.
No names have been released. The woman was in her 50s
and died in the past few weeks.
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Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
Friday, November 19, 2004 Posted: 10:42 AM EST (1542
GMT)
SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (AP) -- A deathbed murder
confession from a Massachusetts woman led to the
discovery of her husband's remains Thursday inside a
freezer at a storage facility, where his body has been
for at least six years, authorities said.
Moments before she died, the woman told one of her
children that she killed her husband in California
several years ago, Middlesex District Attorney Martha
Coakley said. The children informed police.
The woman apparently put the body in a freezer and
shipped it from California to Massachusetts several
years ago, Coakley said.
"It's very bizarre," Coakley said Thursday.
The slaying may have taken place up to 14 years ago,
because that was when the woman apparently began
telling her children that their father had been killed
in a car accident, Coakley said.
Police went to the Planet Self Storage facility in
Somerville on Thursday and found the remains inside a
freezer that was locked and sealed with duct tape, the
district attorney said. There was an odor coming from
the freezer, she said.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause
and approximate time of death.
No names have been released. The woman was in her 50s
and died in the past few weeks.
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Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.