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A store owner who kept a woman’s body hidden in a storage unit in Lewiston refused a request to take a lie detector test 10 years after his girlfriend went missing, says a retired state police.

Frank Julian declined to take a polygraph test while discussing Kitty Wardwell’s 1983 disappearance and didn’t seem to be interested in what had happened to her, said Joe Zamboni, who retired from the Maine State Police in 2004…

Julian died this month at age 80 in Lewiston…in south-central Maine. His relatives found the body inside the storage unit he had rented in 1992. The medical examiner’s office and state police crime laboratory are using DNA to identify the remains, which police suspect are those of Wardell’s.

Zamboni picked up the case after the original investigator was promoted. He said Wednesday that there was never any doubt that Julian was the chief suspect in Wardwell’s disappearance 28 years ago…

Julian said the last time he saw Wardwell was on June 6, 1983. Over the years, the case remained open and was treated as an unsolved homicide…

The body was discovered last Friday by family members cleaning out the 10-by-10 storage unit, which the storage company owner said Julian paid for in advance every three months. The body was inside an unplugged freezer, which was stashed inside the unit along with stacks of boxes and household items…

DNA samples were obtained during an autopsy on Monday, but officials weren’t ready Wednesday to announce the identity of the body.

No doubt they will want a high percentage decision on the DNA analysis. And it looks like the oldest criminal stunt in the books – doing a great job of hiding the body – worked well enough for a probable killer to die of old age.

Think there might be anything interesting in there?

A frozen human body was found Monday evening by two people cleaning out the home of a deceased relative.

According to a news release from the Eddy County Sheriff, the body was discovered around 7:50 p.m. in a chest-type freezer. The remains were first thought to be those of an animal, but after further inspection were determined to be human remains.

The two loaded the freezer into a pickup and drove it to the offices of the Carlsbad Police Department.

After further investigation, the case was turned over to the sheriff’s department because the body had been located outside the city limits…

Although the sheriff’s department has not released the name of the victim, a source close to the investigation has said it may be the husband of the home’s deceased occupant. The man reportedly went missing in 1997.

News from downstate usually doesn’t get much traffic in central or northern New Mexico. When there’s real “human interest” like this – well, it gets more play than UFOs or the latest lawsuit by someone whose neighbor’s wifi network makes their brain buzz.

The body of one of France’s best-known chefs was discovered hidden in a freezer after his girlfriend revealed to her daughter that “something unfortunate” had happened to him, police said.

The frozen corpse of Jean-Francois Poinard, the retired restaurateur, was found by detectives at an apartment in Lyon, south-east France.

The body of the 71-year-old man – one of Lyon’s top chefs in the 1970s and 80s – is believed to have been concealed in the freezer for up to two years, officers said.

They made the discovery after Mr Poinard’s former girlfriend Guylene Collober, 51, told her daughter on a night out that “something unfortunate” had befallen her lover. The daughter informed police, who raided the apartment on Tuesday.

“A full post-mortem examination will be carried out to discover the precise cause of death.”

Mrs Collober had been taken into custody charged with hiding a body, but faced further charges depending on the findings of the autopsy, the spokesman said.

Lyon newspaper Le Progres described Mr Poinard as one of the city’s “great names” in gastronomy.

So, who’s been going to the freezer and taking out frozen snacks all this time?

Police tent covers the bin and body during the investigation

A cheating husband killed his wife and kept her body in a freezer for almost three years before dumping her remains in a wheelie bin when he moved abroad with a young lover.

Peter Wallner, 34, admitted the manslaughter of his wife, Melanie, by hitting her over the head with a heavy griddle pan. He ordered a freezer from Argos and kept her corpse in a shed at their Surrey home before throwing it in the bin in May last year.

He hoped that the corpse would be destroyed in the rubbish lorry but refuse collectors would not move the wheelie bin because it was too heavy, the Old Bailey was told.

Mr Wallner killed his 30-year-old wife on the eve of his birthday so that he could bring his lover to their home, it was alleged. The following night he had sex with Emma Harrison on the blood-stained mattress where his wife had died.

Mr Wallner told his wife’s family and friends that she had died of a brain haemorrhage but repeatedly made excuses for failing to provide a death certificate, the court was told. He gave a speech at her memorial service in London and took an urn of ashes gathered from a barbecue to South Africa so that they could be buried on his wife’s family farm.

Mrs Wallner’s corpse was discovered in June by the landlord of his rented home in Cobham. The freezer used to store her body had been sold to a neighbour for £25.

Eeoough!

RTFA. The trial continues.

Everything is nice and tidy

An elderly woman has been questioned by police after allegedly keeping her mother’s body in a freezer for up to two decades, it emerged today. Police found the body wrapped in a black bin liner in a chest freezer at a semi-detached house in Sidcup, south-east London.

Officers interviewed Daulat Irani, 83, under caution after the body was discovered and identified as that of her mother Gulbai Freedoon Murzan, who was born in 1901. Police believe she may have been dead for up to 20 years.

Metropolitan police said the death was being treated as unexplained, rather than suspicious. Postmortem results are expected later this week.

It is understood that officers were called to the property in Park Mead on 10 May after being alerted by a neighbour, and forensic officers removed the corpse.

It is unclear why the body was kept in the freezer, but neighbours of the elderly woman suggested she may have been worried that immigration authorities would discover her mother had been living illegally in the UK.

A neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said Irani was a “very private person” who kept her garden in pristine condition. “Obviously it was shocking when the police came and told me what happened. They said they believed she had been in the freezer for more than 20 years”.

Of course, in the U.S. the obvious reason always is receiving and cashing Social Security checks sent to the deceased. Direct deposit helps that whole process. Dunno how that’s handled in the U.K. nowadays.

I like the touch about the garden being pristine. The usual quote from a neighbor in the States is that she was “always friendly and got along with everyone” – especially if discussing an axe murderer.