The man told investigators that he put his wife in the freezer after finding her dead
A 57-year-old Norwegian man was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison by a Swedish court on Monday for fraud and falsifying data. Fox news. The man had kept his wife’s body in a freezer for almost five years to collect her pension.
The man’s lawyer told the local newspaper Nya Wermlands-Tidningen“They did not want to be buried in a public cemetery, but actually on the farm. So he put her in the freezer to bury her outside later, and then it fell by the wayside.”
The man is said to have told his friends and family that his 60-year-old was alive even after she died of cancer in 2018. According to an English-language Norwegian news site, the woman’s family reported her missing after losing contact with her, but the man continued to tell them that she was asleep or unavailable, before finally telling them that she was no longer dating her. wanted to talk to them.
Police found her body in March after a tip, and the man admitted to hiding her death and body.
The man told investigators he put his wife in the freezer after finding her dead in their home. The couple lived in Arjang, about 340 kilometers west of Stockholm.
According to some local media reports, the man had stored the body in the freezer, where he also kept food. Meanwhile, the man continued to claim the woman’s pension and tax credits, a total of more than 1.2 million Norwegian krone ($116,000).
“The man also used the freezer for other purposes, which in my view means that the sanctity of the deceased’s grave was violated every time the man opened and closed the freezer, which is an aggravating circumstance,” prosecutor Linda Karlsson said in an declaration.
The court convicted the man on charges including gross violation of civil liberties, gross fraud, mutilation of a corpse and forgery of documents.
