A Florida woman kept the corpse of her 93-year-old mother in a freezer so she could continue to collect the dead woman’s disability benefits!
Local police arrested Michele Rene Hoskins, 64, after they found her 93-year-old mother dead in a freezer in the home they shared. According to officers who were on the scene of the macabre discovery, Michelle stuffed Marie Hoskins in a freezer in order to collect the late woman’s “disability benefits.”
The incident occurred in Sebastian, Florida. The 93-year-old woman had died of natural causes, officials said. Police discovered the body after Hoskins’ neighbors asked for a welfare check. “The neighbors were concerned about not seeing Marie Hoskins for an extended period of time,” officers said.
Cops said they made multiple attempts to contact anyone in the home at 107 Paddock Street. Each was unsuccessful. They could not find Marie. Worrying about her, they managed to get a key to the residence from an out-of-town family member, and they entered the home, officers said. Inside, cops found a 64-year-old resident, who they did not identify at the time except as “Marie’s daughter.”
She said she had not seen her mother in “some time,” police said.
“As officers checked the rest of the home in an attempt to locate Mrs. Hoskins to check her wellbeing, a deceased body was located inside a large freezer in the garage,” police said. “The tenant of the residence voluntarily came to the Sebastian Police Department for questioning as Detectives obtained a search warrant for the house on Paddock Street.”
Police executed the search warrant, and at that time, removed Marie’s body along with other evidence, they said. Soon after, they obtained an arrest warrant against Michele Hoskins.
“During her interview with police detectives, Michele admits to finding her mother deceased in her bedroom,” cops said. “Michele subsequently purchased a deep freezer to conceal her mother’s death for the concern she would not be able to receive her disability benefits.”
“During the execution of a search warrant on the property, a heavily soiled bed mattress was located concealed in thick brush and covered by cut palm tree branches in the backyard,” police further noted. “The investigation revealed Marie’s death was from natural causes and that she was deceased for approximately two weeks before being placed inside the chest freezer.”
Michele remains at the Indian River County Jail on a $10,000 bond. She faces a count each of failure to report a death and tampering with or destroying evidence.
Poor strategic thinking. Michele should have gone to a taxidermist instead and had Marie configured in a lifelike position.
Then she should have attached a tape recorder that could be operated remotely so Marie seemed to be talking.
Michele could have recorded a message something like “You all awakened me out of a sound sleep. It’s bad enough to get calls from telemarketing calls all day long. Please leave me alone. Go away. If you need anything more, my daughter will go to your office and talk to you. Now don’t you have traffic tickets to give people?”
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