{"id":1546139,"date":"2022-07-09T20:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T00:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546139"},"modified":"2022-07-09T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T00:49:29","slug":"woman-bought-freezer-to-hide-dead-mom-collect-her-checks-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-bought-freezer-to-hide-dead-mom-collect-her-checks-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Bought Freezer To Hide Dead Mom, Collect Her Checks: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoman-bought-freezer-to-hide-dead-mom-collect-her-checks-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a> woman lived for two weeks with the body of her 93-year-old mother before buying a freezer to keep her in \u2014 all to make sure she kept getting the dead woman\u2019s disability checks, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Hoskins, 64, was arrested Thursday and charged with failing to report a death after she admitted to finding her dead mother in bed and allegedly purchased a deep freezer to hide the body in, the TCPalm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/crime\/indian-river-county\/2022\/07\/08\/sebastian-woman-hid-body-mother-freezer-for-her-social-security\/10016204002\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Michelle Hoskins) found her mother deceased in her bed and decided not to contact authorities so that she could continue to receive Social Security disability benefits that she would not be afforded if it was known that her mother was deceased,\u201d Detective Kenneth McDonough said.<\/p>\n<p>Police conducted a welfare check at Hoskins\u2019 home on April 27 after receiving calls from \u201cconcerned neighbors.\u201d When police questioned Hoskins, she told them that Marie was seeing a doctor, but she could not explain how her mother got to her appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Officers obtained a warrant and searched the house the next day , and made the grisly discovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn April 28, 2022, officers located 93-year-old, Marie Hoskins, deceased inside a chest freezer after a welfare check at 107 Paddock Street, Sebastian Florida,\u201d Sebastian police said in a Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SebastianPoliceDepartment\">post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police then asked Hoskins to come to the station for an interview without telling her they had discovered her mother\u2019s dead body. Hoskins initially told detectives she had not seen her mother since the night of April 27, the day police first checked on her home, and thought she might be at another doctor\u2019s appointment. She finally admitted that she had found her dead mother in bed but couldn\u2019t remember the exact day of her discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found that Hoskins purchased the freezer on April 21, and she said \u201cit took (her) three to five days to get her mother\u2019s body to the freezer in the garage.\u201d Hoskins also hid her mother\u2019s\u00a0\u201cheavily soiled mattress\u201d behind \u201cthick brush and covered by cut palm tree branches in the backyard,\u201d according to police.<\/p>\n<p>A medical examiner did not suspect foul play, determining Marie died from heart failure.<\/p>\n<p>Hoskins appeared in court Friday and is being held in the Indian River County Jail on a $10,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida woman lived for two weeks with the body of her 93-year-old mother before buying a freezer to keep her in \u2014 all to make sure she kept getting the dead woman\u2019s disability checks, police said.\u00a0 Michelle Hoskins, 64, was arrested Thursday and charged with failing to report a death after she admitted to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1547330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}