UT - Jeanne Souron-Mathers, 75, found deceased with male body in her freezer, Tooele, 26 Nov 2019

[meanmaryjean]

Utah police find woman's body on welfare check, discover additional body in a freezer

Possibly been in the freezer for ELEVEN YEARS

 

[meanmaryjean]

Tooele police believe elderly woman knew body was in her freezer

 

[mrz]

Man's body found in freezer of dead Utah woman was that of her husband, authorities say

 

[FrostOwl]

There is already a thread: UT- Jeanne Souron-Mathers, 75, found deceased. with male body in her freezer, Tooele

 

[mrz]

There is already a thread: UT- Jeanne Souron-Mathers, 75, found deceased. with male body in her freezer, Tooele

I realized that this morning and notified staff I made a duplicate post. Thank you for the heads up though..

 

[Blurgle]

Possibly dementia, possibly pension fraud, especially since there were no signs of violence on Mr. Mathers's remains. I can't even imagine!

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“That is kind of what started all this,” said Tooele City Police sergeant Jeremy Hansen to ABC News’ affiliate station KTVX.

“Foul play is suspected. Both bodies were taken to the medical examiner’s office for autopsy. There was no trauma, visible trauma, on the female,” said Hansen. “We are still waiting for the medical examiner’s report and the autopsy to be done on the male and that way we can find out if there is any trauma or anything like that to his body and try to figure out how he died.”

“Well, that is kind of our problem right now,” said Hansen. “The detectives talked to several other people at the apartment complex that lived in the different apartments and they did recall seeing a male at the apartment but every time they asked, the time frame was different. So that is why we are suspecting anywhere from a year and a half to 11 years … We truly don’t know at this point how long he had been in the freezer.”

Foul play is expected in her husband Paul Edward Mathers’ death but the death of Jeanne Souron-Mathers is not considered suspicious. The investigation is ongoing.
Man's body found in elderly woman's freezer could have been there for 11 years

 

[enelram]

Possibly dementia, possibly pension fraud, especially since there were no signs of violence on Mr. Mathers's remains. I can't even imagine!

So was she living it up on his SS benefits?

 

[oceanblueeyes]

“That is kind of what started all this,” said Tooele City Police sergeant Jeremy Hansen to ABC News’ affiliate station KTVX.

“Foul play is suspected. Both bodies were taken to the medical examiner’s office for autopsy. There was no trauma, visible trauma, on the female,” said Hansen. “We are still waiting for the medical examiner’s report and the autopsy to be done on the male and that way we can find out if there is any trauma or anything like that to his body and try to figure out how he died.”

“Well, that is kind of our problem right now,” said Hansen. “The detectives talked to several other people at the apartment complex that lived in the different apartments and they did recall seeing a male at the apartment but every time they asked, the time frame was different. So that is why we are suspecting anywhere from a year and a half to 11 years … We truly don’t know at this point how long he had been in the freezer.”

Foul play is expected in her husband Paul Edward Mathers’ death but the death of Jeanne Souron-Mathers is not considered suspicious. The investigation is ongoing.
Man's body found in elderly woman's freezer could have been there for 11 years

I haven't read your provided link yet, but I will.

Do you know if her husband had any family or even children from a prior marriage?

It's sad he seemed to not have even been missed all of this time.

How tragic for her murdered husband.

Imo, it's compassionate for those living around the elderly to check on them regularly, even if it's every couple of weeks, and family members certainly should even if they live far away.

I think there are more dead bodies, possibly of all ages, in freezers or buried in the yard who have been murdered.

These kind of suspects tend to isolate the victims so when they are murdered no one will even miss them.

Jmho

 

[meanmaryjean]

Man found dead in freezer at wife's Tooele apartment died 11 years ago, police say

 

[Blurgle]

Update: HE left a letter explaining it all!

Man whose body was in his wife’s freezer for 10 years may have written a letter absolving her of blame

The man whose frozen body was found in his wife’s Tooele apartment apparently left a notarized letter indicating that she didn’t kill him — she just kept his body in a freezer in her home for more than a decade.

The letter — believed to have been written by Paul Edward Mathers and signed Dec. 2, 2008 — “was found in the home,” sad Tooele City Police Sgt. Jeremy Hansen. “It says that his wife was not responsible for his death.”

 

[Mind your biscuits]

Update: HE left a letter explaining it all!

Man whose body was in his wife’s freezer for 10 years may have written a letter absolving her of blame

The man whose frozen body was found in his wife’s Tooele apartment apparently left a notarized letter indicating that she didn’t kill him — she just kept his body in a freezer in her home for more than a decade.

The letter — believed to have been written by Paul Edward Mathers and signed Dec. 2, 2008 — “was found in the home,” sad Tooele City Police Sgt. Jeremy Hansen. “It says that his wife was not responsible for his death.”

Well, that's just weird. I just read the article, so, she put him in the freezer.

 

[Blurgle]

Well, that's just weird. Did he put himself in the freezer too?

I am wondering if he literally did. Did he commit suicide by deep freeze?

 

[Mind your biscuits]

Maybe they didn't want to pay for a funeral, or didn't want to be apart? I wonder if we'll hear the rest of the story? Moo

 

[meanmaryjean]

This just gets weirder and weirder.

 

[Blurgle]

Maybe they didn't want to pay for a funeral, or didn't want to be apart? I wonder if we'll hear the rest of the story? Moo

Apparently she was getting his pension money, so there's that - but she would have been eligible anyway as a widow. It's very odd.

 

[Mind your biscuits]

Update: HE left a letter explaining it all!

Man whose body was in his wife’s freezer for 10 years may have written a letter absolving her of blame

The man whose frozen body was found in his wife’s Tooele apartment apparently left a notarized letter indicating that she didn’t kill him — she just kept his body in a freezer in her home for more than a decade.

The letter — believed to have been written by Paul Edward Mathers and signed Dec. 2, 2008 — “was found in the home,” sad Tooele City Police Sgt. Jeremy Hansen. “It says that his wife was not responsible for his death.”

Having read this article again, I saw that the letter was notarized! Who would notarize such a document? I'm curious how the letter was worded, maybe something like. To whom it may concern. 'If at sometime in the future you find me dead in the freezer, my wife didn't do it'. Yours sincerely bla bla. Moo.

 

[Blurgle]

A notary public can notarize any document and they don't always read them; in fact, they often don't read them for privacy reasons. Their job is to certify that they saw someone sign a document at a specific place and time.

 

[YaYa_521]

Utah man found dead in a freezer exonerated his wife in a note

The wife of a Utah man found in a freezer didn’t kill him, according to a note he left behind. On the contrary, he said the woman had tried to keep him alive.

Snip

According to a news release from police, when they entered her apartment they found a “notarized, typed letter in the entranceway." The letter explained that he had cancer, and knew a combination of medication would stop his heart. He wanted to make it known that his wife was not responsible for his death.

#More at link

and I'm sure he's on video entering the notary's office/home? I ain't buying it.

 

[Blurgle]

Utah man found dead in a freezer exonerated his wife in a note

The wife of a Utah man found in a freezer didn’t kill him, according to a note he left behind. On the contrary, he said the woman had tried to keep him alive.

Snip

According to a news release from police, when they entered her apartment they found a “notarized, typed letter in the entranceway." The letter explained that he had cancer, and knew a combination of medication would stop his heart. He wanted to make it known that his wife was not responsible for his death.

#More at link

and I'm sure he's on video entering the notary's office/home? I ain't buying it.

I buy it 100%. This sounds entirely plausible.