SEBASTIAN, Fla. — A Florida woman has been charged with failing to report her mother’s death more than two months after the woman’s body was found in a freezer in the home they shared.
The 64-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday and also charged with tampering with evidence. The body of her 93-year-old mother was found after a welfare check in late April, according to the Sebastian police Facebook page. The daughter told investigators she bought the deep freezer and put her mother’s body in it so she could continue receiving her disability payments.
The department said the investigation showed the woman died of natural causes and that she had been dead for two weeks before her body was placed in the freezer. Investigators searching the property found a heavily stained mattress hidden in thick bushes and covered with shredded palm fronds, police said.
The woman is being held in the Indian River County Jail on $10,000 bond. Online jail records do not list an attorney for her.
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