Chapter 16 4. The female corpse in the freezer

Five and a half years later, when Dorothy Tabski suddenly disappeared, her eldest daughter, Kelly, made a startling discovery -- Dorothy Tabski had been found, and it was in a freezer found.Obviously.Her mother is dead, but who is the murderer? After playing mahjong and going to the party, Dorothy Tabski has a really good life.Just after attending the party that day, Dorothy, who was drunk, returned home with the help of her daughter's boyfriend Jiao En, and they seemed to be very close. Dorothy did not know how many times she came back drunk from outside. In front of outsiders, Dorothy's husband Leonard couldn't say anything.So he sent his eldest daughter, Kelly, to make her mother some hangover soup.The young man Jiao En, who is taking his drunken future mother-in-law home, is in a dilemma when he is pulled into the kitchen by Kelly.

Kelly's family owns a company that represents all kinds of wine. Originally, the father was running the company alone. I don't know when the mother also started to work in the company.Later, my mother often went to bars, mahjong halls, and parties.Kelly knew that her mother went to such places, so she was curious why Jiao En was with her mother and sent her home. Walking into the kitchen, Kelly closed the door and asked, "What's going on?" Jiao En said in a slippery tone: "Didn't you see it all, I sent my mother back. Am I not Mrs. Xin, your instructions to behave well?" After listening to Jiao En's words, Kelly grabbed one of his ears and shot back. : "I think you are still slick, tell the truth. Do you think I don't know about the deeds you did? My mother must have met you in those ghost places and was angry with you, so she got drunk..."

"Kelly, you don't know who your mother is? Why did you wrong me?" Before Kelly could finish speaking, Jiao En interrupted Kelly angrily. After hearing Jiao En's words, Kelly also became angry. She said, "Tell me, who is my mother? You are out of business all day long, and you dare to criticize others." The two of them were arguing sentence by sentence.Just when they were arguing red-faced, Leonard pushed the door in and shouted, "Kelly, what are you arguing about? Don't you think it's embarrassing enough?" After hearing his father's scolding, Kelly stared at Jiao En silently.

Jiao En and Kelly are high school classmates, they have been in love for many years.Although Kelly occasionally found that Jiao En liked to spy on other girls and was half-hearted, but she never really caught the evidence.Until one day, Kelly caught Jiao En and other girls kissing under the dim streetlight.The girl was actually met by Joon at a party, but he managed to trick the innocent Kelly in the end.Since then, Kelly has become more mindful. After finishing the hangover soup, Kelly dragged Jiao En to his room to continue the conversation in the kitchen.Seeing that he couldn't be fooled this time, Jiao En had no choice but to tell the truth.

It turned out that Jiao En went to the party with Kelly's mother, who is his future mother-in-law.It's a party, but it's actually an adult game of comforting each other.Originally, Kelly's mother didn't like Jiao En being with her daughter, and thought he was a libertine.Until one day, when Kelly and Dorothy appeared at a party at the same time, Dorothy knew that her innocent daughter had been cheated.In order to teach this duplicity for her daughter, Dorothy led Jiao En into the hotel after the party.However, not only did the drunken Dorothy not vent her anger on behalf of her daughter, but instead she followed Jiao En's advice and even slept naked with her daughter's boyfriend for one night.That night had haunted Dorothy like a nightmare ever since.However, because of this, Jiao En also took hold of her, kept threatening her, and extorted money from her.

At first, Dorothy felt sorry for her daughter and felt helpless, but gradually she couldn't do without Jiao En.In addition to Jiao En, she also began to look for other objects, and participated in other adult games endlessly outside.For a long time, in order not to let Jiao En tell the truth of the matter, in order not to irritate his daughter, no matter how much Jiao En opened his mouth, Dorothy generously donated money.After finding a new partner, she stopped paying attention to Jiao En.This time, the reason why Jiao En sent her back was because Jiao En discovered her attempt - she gradually wanted to get rid of Jiao En.

To the family, it was an open secret that Dorothy was messing around outside.However, when it really came to light, and with her daughter's boyfriend, the family was dealt a fatal blow, especially her daughter Kelly.As a result, Dorothy became the target of her family's attack for a while, and the family was in a mess and noisy. On September 28, 1985, Dorothy disappeared suddenly. Four days later, her husband, Leonard, called police to say they had had an argument a few days earlier and Dorothy threatened to leave him, and police intervened.A week or two after that altercation, the police received another call from Leonard."My wife did it again and ran away from home. This time she didn't take any pills, but said she was going to leave here forever, and she took something," he told police. As is customary, the police made a missing persons register.

As a mother, it was almost unheard of for Dorothy to leave her daughter without saying hello.Perhaps, it was because she felt ashamed to face her daughter that she left without saying goodbye.Dorothy, however, has not been seen since, no one knows where she is, and she has no contact with anyone but her husband. Is it true that his wife ran away from home as Leonard said?Soon, the police received another call from Leonard.He said: "I found my wife. She called. I packed some clothes and sent them there. She didn't want to go home and said she wanted a divorce. We are going through divorce procedures. She said that even if she had to leave her two children, she would Get out of here forever, too." By this time, Dorothy had been missing for five or six days.

Leonard also told police that he met his wife at a gas station and brought her several personal items as she wanted to start a new life.This is just another family dispute case, and the missing persons investigation is over.The incident was not mentioned again for several years, but one day Dorothy's sister called the police out of the blue.About two or three years later, Dorothy's sister, Carol Sutton, called and said, "It's so strange, we've had Christmases, birthdays, holidays and graduations, and Dorothy has been No phone calls, no greeting cards, no indications, we are a very close family. We meet at least once a month, and we spend holidays together. Although later, Dorothy found a few boyfriends, always Going out with them for the holidays, but she'll call to wish us well no matter what."

In the end, Carol also said that everything can't be blamed on Dorothy, she did it because of Leonard.When running the company, Leonard was always messing around with the company secretary and bar girls, which irritated Dorothy.Later, in order to relieve the distress in her heart, Dorothy also went out to find other people.However, after Leonard found out, he beat and scolded her more than once, and threatened to kill her one day. As Carroll told the police, they wondered what she was trying to tell them.In the end, Carroll told police with absolute certainty: "I think Leonard killed my sister."

Without any basis, Carol said that her brother-in-law killed her sister.Carroll's words aroused the suspicion of Homicide Squad Sergeant Rick Pomorski.After learning that Leonard had beaten his wife violently, the police decided to conduct a polygraph test on him, even though there was no evidence of a crime.After all, he was the only person who had been in contact with Dorothy since she disappeared. That day, Leonard's father, who was in his sixties or seventies, drove him to the police station himself.He took the test and passed.Not only did Leonard pass the polygraph test, he also testified that he had seen Dorothy on the side of the road a few weeks earlier.Obviously, he meant that Dorothy was still alive.Because they are still married and filing taxes at the tax office, both names must be on the income return.Leonard provided this application form.Officer Pomorski got an income return form from the IRS, and after looking at the signatures of the two men, he felt that the signatures were not forged.Even so, it cannot be used as evidence of handwriting, because the police could not obtain more samples of Dorothy's handwriting for comparison.Therefore, the police had to accept Leonard's explanation of the matter. Are things really as Leonard said? Three and a half years after Dorothy disappeared, her eldest daughter, Kelly, made a startling discovery.One day Kelly was doing laundry in the basement.She noticed that the deep freeze red light was on on the freezer, but the key was missing.Dorothy used to use the freezer a lot.Kelly pried open the cover with a screwdriver, and when she looked inside, she was shocked by what she saw.Although Kelly somewhat hated her mother, she still reported the case to her sister and brother-in-law when she saw the tragic death of her mother. Officer Pomorski walks into the police station interview room, where Kelly, her boyfriend and his partner tell him the startling news that they've found Dorothy.Immediately realizing she was dead, Pomorski asked, "Where did you find it?" His partner said, "In the freezer!" Officer Pomorski thought he had found it somewhere in Canton, but when his partner said it was in a freezer, he thought he had misheard.So, he asked again: "What did you say? Where is it?" "She's dead. In the freezer," his partner said word for word.This thing is indeed too unbelievable.When Dorothy's daughter described to Officer Pomorski what she had seen in detail, he didn't even believe such a thing, thinking they were joking. The daughter actually found her mother who had been missing for several years in the freezer in the basement.It seemed that everything his father had said before was a lie. Why is he lying?What is he hiding?After listening to Dorothy's daughter's description, the police rushed to Leonard's house with a search warrant.Leonard was arrested.Investigators went into the basement, and they could already feel something terrible hidden in the freezer-that is, Dorothy's terrible body that had been smashed into pieces.She was frozen solid in the deep freeze and covered in blood.Her traumatic head injury was fatal and the body was sent for an autopsy while forensic doctors searched the basement.At the police station, Officer Pomorski interrogated Leonard.In the interrogation room, Officer Pomokes looked at Leonard and said, "Leonard, we found Dorothy." "Really? Where?" Leonard asked in surprise. Sergeant Pomorski said without hesitation, "Come on, stop acting, you know where." "No, Detective Pomorski, I don't know." Leonard continued to argue. "Leonard, it's in your freezer. The one you have the key to," Officer Pomorski said. "Really?" Leonard still denied it, "I don't know how she is there, I don't know who did it, I don't know." Hours later, Leonard finally admitted that he knew Dorothy was in the basement freezer and gave police a detailed account of what happened that day.It turned out that when Leonard found out that Dorothy was having an affair with her daughter's boyfriend, Leonard confronted Dorothy in the basement, and Dorothy had a knife in her hand.Leonard told police: "Dorothy deprived me of my dignity as a man. She said I wasn't a man and couldn't satisfy her. She had to find sixteen and seventeen-year-olds to satisfy her, and they were all boys. .If you don't believe me, you can ask our daughter..." Leonard went on to say that just in that situation, the woman raised the knife in her hand and scolded him, trying to kill him.Leonard grabbed her head in self-defense.It ended up banging her head on a beam, which is the beam that supports the basement.Dorothy lost her balance and fell into the open refrigerator.After calming down from his rage, he walked back and noticed that Dorothy was still lying in the freezer, not breathing.He closed the lid in a panic and never opened it again. Accidentally, a large living person lay in the refrigerator for several years.Since it was a miss, why didn't Leonard rescue his wife?Could it be that he wanted to put her to death?Leonard spoke vividly, but what is the truth? After passing the autopsy, he found that what Leonard said were all lies, and none of them were true.In the end, forensic pathologist Dr. L. J. Jagwick used evidence to debunk Leonard's lie. Dr. Jagwick stripped the scalp from the skull and found at least 7 to 8 separate impact wounds on the head.Those wounds were never caused by one person falling to the ground, or one person being pushed against a beam by another.That's not true.Forensic findings also confirmed that Dorothy was murdered in the basement.Her head was apparently repeatedly hit against the iron beam with great force.Dr. Jagwick thought Leonard's account of Dorothy falling into the freezer and closing the lid on it was complete nonsense. Her legs were bent inward, and her body was barely curled up.She certainly couldn't be in this position herself, there were other frozen foods in the freezer, and her body was obviously carefully arranged where there was room to spare.So, that's how it ended up being.For any object or person that fell in freely, this space is not enough, it must have been put in this way by others, and Leonard was the only one who was there at the time. Facing the hard facts, Leonard had to admit that he killed his wife.Given that Leonard committed the crime without prior planning, the court found him guilty of manslaughter.In the end, Leonard was convicted of manslaughter. He will serve 20 to 40 years in prison, and he will not be released on parole until 20 years at the earliest.