An updated version of the article says the Medical Examiner said they had no record of a recent death of a Robert Haxby.
Six months after woman found in Allied Gardens freezer, new info about husband He's probably in assisted living or a nursing home somewhere. He may not be able to come home even if the home wasn't the scene of a crime.
It's possible her death was natural, and he just covered it up for financial reasons. He seems like he would have had some retirement income himself, but maybe he would have had to move and lead a more restricted lifestyle without her financial contribution and he didn't want to. Still, that conclusion seems odd, perhaps, because the vast majority of cases where someone's death isn't reported for financial reasons, it's usually by the person's children or younger people, not their spouse/partner of a similar age.
She retired in 1999, when she was only in her fifties, so it sounds like she had health issues. If she was murdered, you wonder what led to that after they had been together a long time. She wanted to split up? He wanted his son to move in? Hmm. I did find an article that said the relatives who found her body were not blood related to her. Even if she was murdered, and they think they can prove it, and the husband/partner could be charged, he may not be in a state where he's competent to be charged.
If it was just financial fraud, he may not be in a state where he can be charged either. If either of those are true, they would probably announce it, though. Some crime was committed, but financial fraud is much less of a crime than murder. If they can't ever figure out how she died, and he can't or won't talk, then the case may never be closed, officially, although it's very possible the evidence leans one way or another, and without a solid cause of death it wouldn't stand up in court-if he could even be charged.
I wonder if the son or someone else did live there for a time as well as her husband/partner, as some of the police calls made after her death, or just before it (the year before, possibly) don't seem to point to just one person or the couple living there. Maybe some other relative of his killed her, and he just covered it up. Or he committed the financial fraud to help a relative of his, not himself.
Maybe, although this is more remote, as she seems to have been a respectable retiree, her death was drug related, and he feared legal charges, so covered it up. There was apparently an overdose call in the years after (or even possibly before) she died. I didn't looked up the exact years, although I think they are online somewhere. And perhaps, she wanted him to help her commit assisted suicide (due to health issues) and he did so, but fearing charges covered it up? Or she was suffering from medical issues, and he killed her just because in his opinion it was putting her out of her pain, but obviously didn't want to report it. There could be other explanations than the more straightforward ones, if she was killed, or even if only financial fraud was committed. Just some thoughts.