The body of a 96-year-old woman was discovered Monday in a freezer behind a Chicago home.
The woman, identified as Regina Michalski, was found around 4:35 p.m. near the 5500 block of West Melrose Street, FOX Chicago reported. She was found inside the freezer in a garage behind the property surrounded by trash.
Michalski was identified by a relative, the news outlet said. Michalski and his daughter lived on the first floor of the house and his daughter owned the building.
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A 96-year-old woman was found dead inside a freezer behind a home in Chicago on Monday.
(Chicago Fox)
Neighbors told the news outlet that they had not seen Michalski in years. In addition, her daughter reportedly gave conflicting stories in recent months that her mother was in a nursing home in another state or that she was still living at home and had died, according to the local outlet.
“He talked about her like she was still here. I was very confused because she had told my dad [that her mother] I was in a house in Wisconsin,” said a neighbor, Brigitte Yáñez.
One of Michalski’s granddaughters, Diane Michalski, told the Chicago Sun-Times that she used to live above her grandmother’s unit. Diane Michalski said her grandmother was a Polish immigrant who spent most of her life working for Motorola.
“I remember when I was a kid, she would bring some work home and show me the little technology and all the little intricate details that she had to do for her job,” she said. “I mean, if you want to talk about women in STEM, she was.”
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She said she hadn’t seen her grandmother in 20 years.
“She didn’t deserve to go like that,” he said.
Police have not said if any arrests have been made.
