SAN DIEGO — Homicide investigators confirmed that a random freezer with a sign that read “free” is unrelated to the home where a missing woman’s dead body was discovered inside of a freezer.
The random freezer stirred confusion on social media and concerned neighbors who thought it might have been the same freezer inside the home where the dead body was found.
San Diego Police Department Homicide detectives confirmed to CBS 8 on Thursday that the "free" freezer sitting directly in front of the Allied Gardens home is not the freezer where a woman’s dead body was discovered in late December.
The freezer inside the Allied Gardens home was collected by the San Diego County Medical Examiner as part of the investigation, San Diego Police confirmed to CBS 8.
A neighbor told CBS 8 on Thursday that the freezer sparked concern in the neighborhood, and said the freezer was moved at around 1 p.m.
The Allied Gardens house has become the center of a suspicious death investigation after relatives visiting from out of town discovered Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones dead inside a chest-style food storage freezer on Dec. 22.
According to police, Haxby-Jones was missing for possibly nine years before she was discovered.
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.
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