Chicago woman kept her mother's dead body in a freezer for nearly 2 years

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Daughter charged after mom's body found in Chicago freezer

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been accused of keeping her mother's dead body in a freezer for nearly two years while living in a nearby apartment.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been accused of keeping her mother’s dead body in a freezer for nearly two years while living in a nearby apartment.

Eva Bratcher, 69, appeared in court Thursday on charges of concealing her 96-year-old mother’s death and possessing a fraudulent identification card.

Regina Michalski’s body was discovered this week in a freezer in the garage near the apartment they had shared, police said. Investigators believe she died in March 2021. The cause won’t be determined until the body is thawed.

The allegations are “very disturbing,” Judge David Kelly said in setting a $20,000 bond for Bratcher.

Kelly turned down a defense lawyer’s request for a lower bond to get Bratcher out of jail.

She has past convictions for forgery, and investigators said they were trying to determine if Bratcher was collecting her late mother’s Social Security benefits, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

 

[Money Be Green]

Cacs

 

[DonB90]

Reports say decomposing body smell was masked by the even stronger stench of sauerkraut.
Go Bears

 

[The_Sheff]

She was most likely getting a bunch of checks.

 

[saturn7]

There's been more than one of these stories recently with people storing bodies in a freezer.

Demon Time: Mother/Daughter edition

 

[ObsidianDev]

Thought the mugshot was the dead body at first

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

The full story is wild.


The arrested woman’s daughter called the police to do a welfare check on her grandma. She hasn’t seen her grandma in decades.

I kinda get the feeling the daughter knew what was going on, but used the welfare check as a way for the police to find out.


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[Mindfield333]

I be forgetting white folks live in Chicago too lol. This seemed too much like cac activity