A body found in a freezer in a California home last December has been identified as an 81-year-old woman believed to have been missing or dead for up to nine years.
San Diego police identified the woman as Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones, 81, who at one point lived in Allied Gardens, the San Diego home where her body was found, investigators said.
Haxby-Jones, who worked as a nurse anesthetist for two decades “may have been missing or dead for up to nine years,” authorities said.
“A lot of this investigation is trying to learn what we can about him,” said Lt. Jud Campbell to the Los Angeles Times. “There’s a lot of space we’re still trying to fill.”
The body found in the freezer has been identified as Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones. KGTV
Authorities were called to the Zion Avenue home on Dec. 22 after an out-of-town relative of the person who now lives in the home found a body in a freezer, according to a press release.
The individual, who is not related to Haxby-Jones, immediately called the police who arrived at about 11.45am that day.
The San Diego Police Department’s Homicide United is investigating the incident due to the unusual location of the body.
Police responded to the home after a body was found in a freezer. KGTV
Haxby-Jones’ cause of death has not been determined, and while authorities said there were “no obvious traumatic injuries to the body,” the case remains under investigation as a suspicious death.
No arrests and no welfare checks were ever called on Haxby-Jones, according to Campbell.
A relative of Haxby-Jones, who asked not to be named, told the Times that the woman’s family was “estranged”.
Haxby-Jones’ official cause of death has yet to be determined. KGTV
“Everything is under investigation, and it’s quite sad how everything turned out,” the relative added. “We try not to comment at this time, because we were not there, we do not know, we cannot answer this question.”
The relative, who had not seen Haxby-Jones since 1995, remembered him as always smiling, having his hair and nails done and being an army veteran.
It remains unclear when Haxby-Jones may have died, and authorities are asking anyone who may know him or have relevant information about him to come forward.
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