SAN DIEGO — Authorities Thursday publicly identified a woman whose body was found two weeks ago in a freezer at an Allied Gardens home.
Relatives visiting from out of town discovered Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones dead inside the chest-style food-storage appliance at the residence in the 4900 block of Zion Avenue late on the morning of December 22, according to the San Diego Police Department.
No obvious traumatic injury to the body was noted and this case remains under investigation as a suspicious death, according to a SDPD press release sent Thursday.
Based on the investigation to this point, detectives believe it is possible that Haxby-Jones may have been missing or dead for up to nine years. Haxby-Jones would have been 81 years old when her remains were found.
Haxby-Jones is believed to have lived at the home on Zion Avenue at some point, according to police.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.