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Maryland's Bizarre Case of the Bodies in the Freezer

By David Lohr

"My mother beats me-she just beats me to death," the 7-year-old girl said to a neighbor as she walked down a Lusby, Maryland street near her home on Friday evening, September 26, 2008.  The girl, adorned in pigtails held in place by pink barrettes, had a number of bruises and cuts on her body that were visible to the neighbor who had called her over to his front yard.  She was wearing only a T-shirt, which was covered with blood and feces.  She claimed that she had escaped from her house by jumping out of a second-story bedroom window, and had been going door-to-door throughout the somewhat secluded and wooded neighborhood seeking help from anyone when she encountered the Good Samaritan.  She told him that she had not eaten for days, and he subsequently ordered a pizza for her...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).