Tooele City police are investigating after they found a dead body in the freezer of an elderly woman who recently died.

Sgt. Jeremy Hansen said Monday that officers were called to Remington Park Apartments, 495 W. Utah Ave., after a maintenance worker reported that he hadn’t heard from one of the tenants, a 75-year-old woman, in weeks.

When police arrived Friday, they found the woman dead.

"A detective was called to the scene and started looking around," Hansen said, "and opens up a deep freezer and finds an unidentified adult male that is deceased."

Police identified the deceased woman as Jeanne Souron-Mathers. But Hansen said they are still trying to figure out whose body is in the freezer — and how he got there.

Hansen estimates that the body had been in the freezer for at least a year, and possibly up to 11 years. That estimate is based off interviews with residents, he said, who have very different recollections of when they saw a man in that apartment.

Hansen said they believe “foul play” is suspected, but said it’s still under investigation whether Souron-Mathers was involved in the man’s death.

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He said the woman had been living in that apartment for a "substantial amount of time."

When asked about the condition of the body, Hansen said it was "intact."