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 he stored his dormant begetter successful a stand-up freezer successful his backyard because he didn't want to suffer nan house, according to  AZFamily.

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

The tipster said that nan acold retention portion was covered pinch 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 nan freezer.

Detectives assigned to nan lawsuit were incapable to verify nan decease of his father, Joseph Hill Sr. They past discovered Hill Sr. was nan proprietor of nan Tempe location his boy 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 nan location days later, this clip equipped pinch a hunt warrant, according to a probable origin connection revenge pinch nan court.

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

When constabulary opened nan 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 nan quality remains beryllium to Hill's father, and nan Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office hasn't yet released an autopsy report.

Hill was arrested and charged pinch concealing a assemblage and failing to study nan decease of personification not nether nan attraction of a healthcare provider, constabulary said. 

After Hill was publication his Miranda rights, he said his begetter died astatine nan Tempe location 4 years earlier, CNN reported.

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

Hill told constabulary he didn't want to study his father's decease because he wasn't connected nan deed of nan Tempe location and was acrophobic to suffer it, nan connection said.

Hill besides explained he mislaid powerfulness galore times astatine his Strawberry and Tempe homes owed to fires, which forced him to move nan freezer around. 

He reportedly tried to hide it successful nan godforsaken but he claimed he was dissuaded from doing truthful because location were 'always group retired there.'

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