You're cleaning out your deceased mother's freezer. Wait a minute, is that a baby corpse?

"Salisbury Steak Deep Dish pie:"

What a waste of good pie.

So he grew up in the house and never got hungry for some frozen cake?

Yeah, like why wouldn't he have looked in the MYSTERIOUS FORBIDDEN WHITE FREEZER BOX before? I'm guessing the sister got the brains, and then was frozen with them.

That bitch was hardcore! All I kept was a wedding cake!

Do you need to thaw before cooking?

R3 It's like a scene from White Bird In A Blizzard in which teen Shailene Woodley finds her missing mother Eva Green's corpse in the locked freezer after mommy made the mistake of walking in on daddy Christopher Meloni fucking some twink.

This happened to me but I wasn't such a drama queen about it. I'm tired of people over-reacting.

Damn! A freezer. Props to the lady. Great solution.

^good heavens!

Presumably she had had least three or four refrigerators in 47 years, so she moved it all those times? And never had a power outage and had to throw everything out?

There's only a lot of pineapples in my freezer.

[quote]Despite the disturbing discovery, Smith said he still needs help to pay for his mother's funeral, click here for the GoFundMe.

Of course. There is always a GoFundMe these days.

Let It Go, Mr. Smith

The frozen dead baby might be worth something to anthropologists

That poor baby had to be freezing before it died in there. :(

Keeping her there for that long will just give her freezer burn. She must have been inedible by that time.

My mother still had a piece of my parents wedding cake from 1966. I guess it's something like that, you know< a 'very special' memento.

Growing up we had all kinds of creatures in our freezer before Dad you take them to the taxidermist. Perhaps that was the plan and she forgot?

I'm so looking forward to having you for dinner

I wonder what happened to his mother?

Her children never wondered why the ice cream tasted funny?

R18 omg when I was leasing a house with a housemate who was a hunter, he had a lot of disturbing taxidermy all over the place. There were always mysterious black garbage bags of miscellaneous animals that he had murdered in the freezer taking up half the space.

Maybe it was roadkill?

Maybe they can thaw it out like Encino Man.

[quote]You're cleaning out your deceased mother's freezer.

As fucking if.

That dude is a rough-looking 37.

In the old days, women used to save the babies they miscarried. Weird, huh?

The zoo takes food donations. Polar bears like that cold meat.

Was it born a tard?

It’s alright if they’re born a tard.

The freezer burn must be awful.

Frozen in time....

ICE! ICE BABY! Too cold.

Freezers are very dangerous.

It’s gonna be hard to post here once the straitjacket is on.

Reminds me of the Véronique Courjault story.

That bitch did only one year. For three babies.

I recently read a book - fictional - with a similar story. Here's part of the description for "The Conjoined" by Jen Sookfong Lee:

[quote]On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver’s Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away.

Gosh, it was creepy enough as a novel.

This is like a Disney story compared to my freezer contents.

What's he asking for the freezer?

Perhaps she didn't kill the baby at all. Perhaps it died of natural causes and out of grief and shock she didn't know what to do with it and put the body in the freezer and it just got to the point where she couldn't tell anyone about it. Perhaps she had some mental health problems, post partum depression etc, delayed grief etc. The years went by and she just didn't know what to do? If you'd murdered it, wouldn't you dispose of the body? It suggests to me she had some emotional attachment and just couldn't let go? At least it can be autopsied and a cause of death determined.

Mothers always get the blame.

I NEVER have any room in my freezer as it is.

She said it was a cake topper, not cake, so why would he open it? Some of the old toppers were wax and were frequently stored in the freezer to prevent melting. That's surely why his mom used that excuse, because it was one of the few things someone would keep in a freezer for decades and was an excuse that made at least a little sense.

What doesn't make sense is that guy being 37. He looks 57.

[quote]Presumably she had had least three or four refrigerators in 47 years, so she moved it all those times?

That fridge was OLD, honey. That's a 1970s harvest gold Hotpoint, you can see the brand tag still on it in the upper right corner.

Eyerolling at all the edgelording here.

[quote]Reminds me of the Véronique Courjault story. That bitch did only one year. For three babies.

Only 3? Pffft. These stories pop up in Germany from time to time. Usually it's 3 or 5 corpses or so. This one was probably the most memorable. 9 dead babies in flower pots around her apartment.

[quote]Eyerolling at all the edgelording here.

At the what?

R46 it's a derogatory slang term used by Millennials to refer to people being edgy for the sake of being edgy/to appear cool. Apparently r44 is new to the DL.

Don't kids go snooping around the house the first second they're old enough to realize all the treasures you can find. How did he not look in that Freezer?

[quote]Salisbury Steak Deep Dish pie:

I’m sorry, what? Who knew?

[quote]Salisbury Steak Deep Dish pie:

I’m sorry, what? Who knew?

R49 & R50 Here you go, its interesting they did product placement in the article. I wonder if this will start a trend?

Babycakes were popular back in the day.

Just pop it in the microwave for ten minutes, darling.

R51 one of the rules of Journalism writing is "get the dog's name" or something like that.

Hanibal Lecter was an occasional dinner guest.

Damn you, R32.

Mama woke up after a bender and the wedding cake was in the crib and the baby...

Amateur.

He was probably only digging through the freezer to see of the old broad had hidden jewelry/cash in there

[quote] Eyerolling at all the edgelording here.

Oh how sweet! You're a newbie!

You Aunt Bee , had that freezer problem Once. Now , I wonder why ?

Per above

You know Aunt Bee

Well I hope she used cheap aluminum foil and not the good Tupperware.

If I were in this situation, I would keep my mouth shut, out of respect for the 2 dead.

The Ice Baby Defrosteth

From reading this story in a few places it makes sense.

Estranged dad said the mom was pregnant when they met but not the second time they went out on a date.

From the description of how he found out what was inside the "cake baby box," it was wrapped up in plastic, then under the plastic there was a fleece blanket, and all of it was probably frozen over so he just couldn't peek at it. (The mom would have known and he probably had to thaw it out first to even cut it open.)

Guy probably moved out at 18.

Guy moves back in when his mother is dying.

Guy finally finds out what's in there after death only because, as he said in interviews, he thought there might be money in there.

Also he is a HARD looking 37.

r33

Only if you're special needs

R62, as if that missing word was the only problem with your post.

She should have “let it go.”

You're cleaning out your deceased mother's freezer. Wait a minute, is that the missing Fabergé Nécessaire Egg? What do you do?

[quote] Mrs Patsy Campbell, formerly of Boulder Colorado

Who?

R8, if you can't do it right, don't do it at all.

I bet the son did it years ago and is now using his mother as a convenient scapegoat.

Iced out the competition R72?

Oh yes, I'm sure that he killed his infant sibling and the parents just shrugged it off like no biggie. Anyway, shouldn't they be able to tell approximately how old the corpse is?

r74

He killed a baby and shoved it in there awhile ago, now that his mother is dead he blames her. There's no way to know right now who the baby is or anything

Uh huh. So mom never would have looked in the box in all those years, and he himself reported it to the police while cleaning out the freezer...why??? He could have easily dumped it somewhere. Come on. Try using logic. There have been many stories like this where the mother kept the infant corpse (and often not just one of them).

r76

He killed the baby and kept it frozen at his house, then when the mother dies brings it over there and says it's been in the mother's fridge for years.

Why is this so hard for you to fathom?

R75 "There's no way to know right now who the baby is or anything."

Um, there's DNA testing that would prove if he was the father or the sibling.

[quote]He killed the baby and kept it frozen at his house, then when the mother dies brings it over there and says it's been in the mother's fridge for years. Why is this so hard for you to fathom?

LOL. Maybe you should lay off watching the CSI marathons.

"If it doesn't make sense, it isn't true!" - Judge Judy

Oh for heaven's sake, anyone who had killed a baby would be at pains to get rid of the body - bury it deep or take it deep into an alligator swamp, or chuck it in a dumpster in another city. The one thing a murderer would want to do at ANY cost is to avoid being caught in possession of a corpse! So no, I don't think this guy killed the baby and produced the corpse for effect decades later, stop insisting on that.

No, keeping a dead baby in the freezer is either an act of complete insanity, or an act of grieving taken to the crackpot level. I have no idea if the baby died by accident or intent, but keeping it in the freezer was the act of someone who just couldn't bear to let it go. I'd expect an unhinged mother to behave that way, not a stranger or a sibling.