Police found a missing 68-year-old woman dead in a locked freezer at a Las Vegas home on Wednesday.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department completed a wellness check at a home in the 5500 block of Tres Piedras Road around 11:40 a.m. on Wednesday, after a person called and said they hadn't seen the woman since late October.
The caller also noted suspicious activity at the mobile home.
Police could not make contact with the woman and determined they could enter the home to ensure her safety. However, they were met by a man and woman acting suspiciously and couldn't tell officers about the missing woman's whereabouts.
Officers searched the house and found a locked chest freezer. They called a locksmith to open the freezer and inside, found human remains that matched the missing woman's description.
The man and woman police spoke to in the home are in custody as their investigation continues.
Authorities are investigating the case as a suspicious death investigation that they are treating as a homicide investigation.
Police said her death does not appear to be a random act. The woman's official cause and manner of death is pending review from the coroner's office.
Newsweek has contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and coroner's office for further comment.
Anyone with information on this case should contact the VMPD Homicide Section by phone at 702-828-3521 or by email at homicide@lvmpd.com. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 or on its website.
Amanda Overstreet
The community of Grand Junction, Colorado, is seeking answers after a human head and hands found in a home freezer were determined to be those of Amanda Overstreet, a 16-year-old girl last seen in 2005.
In January, the new owners of a home on Pinyon Avenue in Grand Junction listed four freezers left behind by the previous owners for free on Facebook.
Upon taking meat out of one freezer, they found human remains, which through DNA testing, were confirmed this month to be Overstreet.
Overstreet's biological mother Leanne Imer, previously lived at the residence where the remains were found.
Despite being last seen at age 16 in 2005, Overstreet was never reported missing, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office says.
The rest of Overstreet's body has not been recovered.
Overstreet's former friends created the Searching For and Remembering Amanda L. Overstreet Facebook page in 2017. Now with over 2,300 members, the group acts as a way to remember Overstreet, as well as discuss information about her disappearance.
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