CHRISTMAS MURDER-BY-FREEZER? Relatives Arrive For Holiday, Find DEAD WOMAN IN FREEZER

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Around 11:45 a.m., two days before Christmas, a 911 call is made to the San Diego Police Department.

Out-of-town visitors find a badly decomposed body inside a chest freezer. The case is turned over to the homicide unit. San Diego police say due to the frozen condition of the body, the only thing they can confirm is that the corpse is female.

During our broadcast, it's announced that the body has been identified as Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones. She would have been 81 years old at the time her remains were found. It's believed that she lived at the home at some point. She may have been missing or dead for up to nine years.

SDPD says no missing report was ever filed for her. Police say the out-of-town visitors were not related to Haxby-Jones. Instead, they are related to someone currently living at the residence. The Medical Examiner's Office is working to determine the cause of death.

And again, the body did not have any obvious traumatic injuries.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Daniel Horowitz – Trial Lawyer, Legal Commentator; FB: daniel.horowitz.140
Dr. Angela Arnold – Psychiatrist, Atlanta, GA; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted “My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022”
Sean Patrick Farley - Former Law Enforcement, Licensed Private investigator (specializing in criminal defense), and Owner of Sean Patrick Investigations, with Services in San Fransico and San Diego Metro Area
Dr. Othon Mena – Forensic Pathologist (working as a medical examiner in Southern California)
Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker at Lead Stories; Twitter: @swimmie2009

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:07.0	It seems like everybody went somewhere over Christmas, whether it was home to Arkansas,
0:21.8	out to California, to New England, down south.
0:26.6	Some people even go surfing in Nicaragua.
0:31.4	Yeah, I heard that. They go all over the place for Christmas holidays. But this is a trip I don't think the relatives will ever forget.
0:43.2	Because when they arrive there near San Diego, California,
0:48.8	to visit, they find their female relative in the freezer.
0:57.0	That's right, you heard me.
0:59.0	In the freezer.
1:01.0	And if you have any question to that, which I'm sure you don't because you're
1:04.0	all legal eagles yes she's dead I'm Nancy Grace this is crime stories thank you
1:10.7	for being with us here at crime Stories and on Series XM 111
1:15.0	dead in the freezer. You know how hard I had to look to find a medical examiner that has a special expertise in people that have been
1:26.7	stored in the freezer or died in the freezer.
1:31.8	That's something you don't see every day but upon further research
1:34.6	I learned that it's more often than we think. So how did this woman end up in the freezer? Why has the medical examiner released a cause of death?
1:47.0	What do they think she crawled in there and committed suicide by freezer? I don't think so. But again, it ain't the first time and I doubt it will be the last. But let's
1:58.3	start at the beginning. Take a listen to our friends at crime online.com.
2:05.0	It was a family trip to visit relatives in the Allied Garden section of San Diego.
2:09.8	The out-of-towners arrived just two days before Christmas.
2:12.8	Surprisingly, the visitors aren't greeted as expected by their loved one as they arrive at the
2:17.3	Zion Avenue home.
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