A woman was arrested Thursday for failing to report the death of her mother, whose body was found in April inside a freezer in the house they both shared, according to authorities in Sebastian, a town southeast of Orlando, Florida.
Police went to the home of 64-year-old Michele Hoskins in April after receiving "multiple calls from concerned neighbors" that they hadn't seen her mother, 93-year-old Marie Hoskins, in days.
The woman told the agents that her mother had gone to a medical visit, but was unable to provide the name and address of the doctor she had supposedly gone to.
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A day later, officers returned with a search warrant to search the house.
During the process, they located Marie's lifeless body inside a freezer that was in the garage of the house.
However, they chose not to inform the woman of the finding, according to the TC Palm information portal.
Hoskins agreed to appear at a police station to answer questions related to the investigation, during which he reiterated that he believed his mother was at the doctor and had not seen her since April 27.
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But during the interrogation, the woman ended up confessing that she had found her mother dead on the bed in her room and that she had decided to buy a large freezer at Walmart to hide her body in it, in order to be able to continue. receiving disability benefits.
The police investigation found that the purchase was made online on April 21 with one of the deceased's credit cards and that the appliance was delivered to her home.
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According to his statement, "it took three to five days for his mother's body to arrive in the freezer," according to the police report cited by TC Palm.
In addition, she hid a dirty mattress with traces of human decomposition behind the trees in the backyard of the residence.
The investigations determined that the mother died of natural causes and that she remained inside the freezer for about two weeks.
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Hoskins is being held in the Indian River County Jail on $10,000 bond.
With information from The Associated Press