Human remains were discovered inside a freezer at a Michigan townhouse, leading police to investigate the ghastly find as a homicide.
Deputies from the East Lansing Department responded on November 7 to 911 calls from an unidentified person who ‘indicated there was blood on the floor’ of one of the homes on the 1500 block of Wintercrest Steet.
Working with the property manager, officers were able get inside the residence and spotted dried blood on the floor.
While searching the house, police found a body inside a freezer alongside the possible human remains of a second person.
Police said that there were no signs of break-in at the residence and believe there is no threat to the public.
Investigators have yet to identify the victims.
The Michigan State Police collected evidence from the residence and sent it for examination at a crime lab.
East Lansing Interim Police Chief Chad Pride told WLNS that determining how and why the remains wound up in the freezer could be challenging.
‘We don’t believe this happened last night or within the last couple days. I believe this is something that happened further back.
‘My hope is we find something quickly, that way the public can be at ease, family can be at ease, neighbors can be at ease,’ he noted.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the East Lansing Police Department for a comment.
Andrew Whitney, a local resident who lives near the property, said that he had not seen anyone go in or out of the townhouse in months.
‘We were thinking last night, how many days have we spent sleeping in bed potentially mere feet away, potentially, from a corpse. Something violent and serious appears to have happened.
‘I haven’t smelled death but if I had to guess, it was the smell of death,’ he told WLNS.
Officials have asked anyone with information to contact the department.
The discovery comes less than a month after an Arizona man told police he stored his dead father in a stand-up freezer in his backyard because he didn’t want to lose the house.
Police arrived at Joseph Hill Jr’s Tempe home after they received a tip on October 22 about a corpse in the freezer, according to Maricopa County court records obtained by AZFamily.
The tipster said that the cold storage unit was covered with a tarp and blankets, according to CNN.
Hill admitted to police that his father died four years earlier in Oregon but otherwise stonewalled them by not allowing them to investigate the freezer.
Detectives assigned to the case were unable to verify the death of his father, Joseph Hill Sr. They then discovered Hill Sr. was the owner of the Tempe home his son was living in.
They also found out Hill Sr. was collecting Social Security benefits until March 2023, which would have been years after his supposed death.
Hill Jr. was arrested and charged with concealing a body and failing to report the death of someone not under the care of a healthcare provider, police said.