“82-Year-Old Dutch Man Kept Father’s Dead Body in Refrigerator to Continue Talking to Him”

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Sunday, May 14, 2023 09:30 PM

Dutch police found a dead man a year ago inside a refrigerator, and police in the town of Landgrave in the Netherlands discovered the body, after the family doctor reported concerns about the disappearance of the 101-year-old man, Al Ain Network reported.

When the police raided the house, they found the man in the refrigerator, so she asked his son, and he admitted that his father had died, but he did not want him to leave, because of his strong attachment to him..

The son, who is 82, said he decided to put the body in the freezer when his father died of natural causes 18 months ago, so he could continue talking to him..

And the Landgrave Police announced that it is investigating the causes of this father’s death and the reasons for putting him in the refrigerator, but they do not suspect that there was any foul play in his death..

The father was sick with a tumor, and he used to visit the hospital regularly, and with his death, his son’s life changed, as the house became a complete mess, and the authorities were looking into the son’s fate and his eligibility to live alone..

This incident, despite its strangeness, is frequent in the Netherlands. In 2018, the police found a man who hid his dead mother’s body for more than two years and continued to collect her pension and social assistance payments. After his arrest, he was forced to pay 40,000 euros, the value of the money she received. her after her death.