Shocking reason Arizona man kept his father's body preserved in freezer for years

An Arizona man gave constabulary a bizarre excuse for keeping his father's dormant assemblage successful a freezer for years, a study said.

Joseph Hill Jr., 51, told cops helium stored his dormant begetter successful a stand-up freezer successful his backyard due to the fact that helium didn't privation to suffer the house, according to  AZFamily.

Police arrived astatine Hill's Tempe location connected Dorsey Lane aft they received a extremity connected October 22 astir the corpse successful the freezer, according to Maricopa County tribunal records obtained by AZFamily.

The tipster said that the acold retention portion was covered with a tarp and blankets, according to CNN. 

Hill admitted to constabulary that his begetter died 4 years agone in Oregon but otherwise  stonewalled them by not allowing them to analyse the freezer.

Detectives assigned to the lawsuit were incapable to verify the decease of his father, Joseph Hill Sr. They past discovered Hill Sr. was the proprietor of the Tempe location his lad was surviving in. 

They besides recovered retired Hill Sr. was collecting Social Security benefits until March 2023, which would person been years aft his expected death.

Detectives returned to the location days later, this clip equipped with a hunt warrant, according to a probable origin connection filed with the court.

Police said that's erstwhile Hill's 'demeanor began to change.' He revealed that if they searched, determination would beryllium 'something successful the freezer.'

When constabulary opened the freezer, which had been without powerfulness for up to six months, they recovered quality skeletal remains arsenic good arsenic an 'extensive magnitude of biologic matter,' per tribunal documents.

Authorities person yet to verify whether the quality remains beryllium to Hill's father, and the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office hasn't yet released an autopsy report.

Hill was arrested and charged with concealing a assemblage and failing to study the decease of idiosyncratic not nether the attraction of a healthcare provider, constabulary said. 

After Hill was work his Miranda rights, helium said his begetter died astatine the Tempe location 4 years earlier, CNN reported.

He bought the freezer the adjacent day, according to the statement, and intended to yet hide his begetter connected a crippled of onshore helium bought successful Strawberry, which is astir 100 miles distant by car from Tempe.

Hill told constabulary helium didn't privation to study his father's decease due to the fact that helium wasn't connected the deed of the Tempe location and was acrophobic to suffer it, the connection said.

Hill besides explained helium mislaid powerfulness galore times astatine his Strawberry and Tempe homes owed to fires, which forced him to determination the freezer around. 

He reportedly tried to hide it successful the godforsaken but helium claimed helium was dissuaded from doing truthful due to the fact that determination were 'always radical retired there.'

Hill's enslaved was acceptable astatine $25,000. A preliminary proceeding is scheduled for November 4.