SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — An 81-year-old woman found dead inside a freezer in an Allied Gardens home was identified by San Diego police on Thursday.
The body of Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones was found Dec. 22 by out-of-town family members. Investigators believe she had been missing or presumed dead for up to nine years, San Diego police Lt. Jud Campbell said in a news release.
Her body had been placed in a chest freezer at a home on Zion Avenue near Eldridge Street where she had lived prior to her death, investigators said.
Homicide detectives are treating the investigation as a suspicious death because of the unusual circumstances surrounding how the body was found.
No cause of death has yet been determined.
Investigators asked anyone with information about Haxby-Jones to call the homicide unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
