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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 11.11.24 | Man Hides Father's Body For Years

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Man hides his father's body for years--afraid to lose dad's home. Foot chase comes to a cartoonish end. 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Tempey Arizona cops get a tip. Joseph Hill

0:05.7

Jr. could be hiding a body in the backyard of his home. Cops find a chest freezer in his backyard.

0:11.8

He refuses to let them open it. When asked about recent deaths in the family, he admits his father died four years ago.

0:18.6

Police can't find a death certificate. When police return with an

0:22.1

upgraded search warrant, they find skeletal remains in the freezer. Joseph Hill admits he hid

0:29.5

his father's death because he was afraid of losing the house. Nancy, the home hell shared with

0:34.8

his father was in his father's name, and Hill Jr. was afraid he would

0:38.4

not be able to afford the capital gains taxes necessary to retain the property when his father

0:43.4

passed. So when Hill Senior takes his last breath, Hill Jr. wraps the body in bedding and

0:49.0

stores it in the chest freezer, never reporting the death. Hill Jr. confessed that he tried to bury the body in the desert

0:55.4

several times, but could not bring himself to go through with it. Hill 51, now charged with concealing

1:01.8

a body and failure to report a death. Scott Schwarian is pulled over for expired registration tags.

1:09.0

Through the window, cops can see baggies of pot and a pillbox labeled as Xanax.

1:13.7

They ask him to get out of the car.

1:15.1

He steps out and takes off running.

1:17.7

Cops don't have to chase him.

1:19.2

He looks back over his shoulder and smacks straight into a telephone pole.

1:23.6

While disoriented, he's handcuffed as cops continue to search the car.

1:27.9

They find fentanyl and meth in addition to the marijuana and Xanax.

1:32.2

Scott Sharian, 39, now facing possession with intent to distribute charges and resisting officers.

1:40.0

More crime and justice news after this.

1:44.6

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online is John Limley.

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