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Some time ago, I started a thread about weird things we hear as children. I wrote about a story my mother told me; she claimed that a teenage couple, watching TV at home, were watching a movie about a man who murdered his wife and put her body in a freezer. The two became very ill-at-ease, since the girl's family had a boarder who owned a freezer, but it was always kept locked. Finally, they broke open the door - and inside was the body of the man's wife.
I looked it up, but there are, it seems, dozens of murder cases in which a man kept his wife's body in a freezer. Not one of them fit the story I'd heard.
This evening, while eating dinner, I was reading a book of true-crime stories.
Yes. Indeed. One story was the very same one Mom told me years ago.
Not all the facts were the same - it turns out that there were several people watching TV that night, and though they were curious about the freezer, they made a joke of taking off the hinges to look inside. But, yes - the man had killed his wife and put her body in a freezer. How weird is it that, not long after I posted that story, I ran across it in a book? I haven't even been able to find the case online, though I haven't looked very hard.
I looked it up, but there are, it seems, dozens of murder cases in which a man kept his wife's body in a freezer. Not one of them fit the story I'd heard.
This evening, while eating dinner, I was reading a book of true-crime stories.
Yes. Indeed. One story was the very same one Mom told me years ago.
Not all the facts were the same - it turns out that there were several people watching TV that night, and though they were curious about the freezer, they made a joke of taking off the hinges to look inside. But, yes - the man had killed his wife and put her body in a freezer. How weird is it that, not long after I posted that story, I ran across it in a book? I haven't even been able to find the case online, though I haven't looked very hard.
But it does seem common that once you hear or see something new, all of a sudden that thing seems to be EVERYWHERE. Weird.
Seriously? You've gotten away with murder, and in that amount of time you can't dispose of/ clean up the evidence? And you stop paying your rental???!!!
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