Identified! CA - Ceres, Male body in freezer at auto shop, Apr'14 - Thomas Kroger

[tarabull]

Police say a property owner made a gruesome discovery Monday: a human body inside a freezer.

The body was found late Monday afternoon at a warehouse along the 1800 block of Whitmore Avenue. Ceres Police say that a property owner went to inspect a warehouse he had rented to a now-defunct auto body shop.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/police-body-found-in-freezer-of-closed-ceres-auto-shop/

 

[Sleuthster]

Seriously? This is a first, a body in a deep freeze in a warehouse? If I where LE I would look into the people who ran the auto shop or find out if the owner is still around. He could be in the freezer. I can't see that someone else (not affiliated with the auto shop) would go to the elaborate steps of killing someone, getting a deep freezer, putting it in an empty warehouse and think it's not going to be found. The whole thing seems extraordinary and extreme to me.

 

[tarabull]

The man’s identity and age have not been determined. It also is unknown how long he was inside the freezer, when he died and how he died.

Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/2014/04/15/3293642/body-found-in-freezer-on-ceres.html#storylink=cpy

 

[tarabull]

Auto body shop owner pleads not guilty in death of 'John Doe' discovered in Ceres shop's freezer
April 17, 2014

According to the complaint, the victim was killed sometime from Dec. 1 to April 10. Police have not said how he died.

Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/2014/04/17/32...rged-in-death.html?sp=/99/1623/#storylink=cpy

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.modbee.com/2014/04/25/3309728/body-found-in-freezer-identified.html?sp=/99/1623/

BY ERIN TRACY
April 25, 2014

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Ceres police identified the victim Friday as Thomas Kroger, who changed his last name to Cervantes when he married the suspect Jacob Cervantes on Aug. 13.

 

[OkieGranny]

From December 2015:

http://www.cerescourier.com/section/11/article/6402/

The man accused of killing his lover and storing his body in a deep freezer in late 2013 or early 2014 will face trial next October.

Charged in the murder of Thomas Cervantes, otherwise known as Thomas Kroger, is Jacob Medina Cervantes, a 28-year-old ex-businessman who's abandoned The Shop Customs auto body shop at 1828 Whitmore Avenue yielded Kroger's frozen corpse.

 

[Dionysia]

"lover"

That should have said "husband."

 

[WyomingSkyAngel]

I used to drive on the road where that warehouse is (work commute.) Trust me this story only adds to the creepiness and grime of the area.