A Chicago girl has been charged with concealing the physique of her 96-year-old mom after the aged girl was discovered Monday in a freezer behind the residence constructing the place they lived.
Eva Bratcher, 69, was arrested after police discovered the physique of her mom, Regina Michalski, in a storage round 4:35 p.m. close to the 5500 block of West Melrose Road throughout a welfare verify, FOX32 Chicago reported.
Michalski was discovered contained in the freezer in a storage behind the property surrounded by trash. It was unclear how lengthy she had been useless when police discovered her physique.
Bratcher had instructed conflicting tales about her mom in current months, in response to neighbors who spoke with the Chicago Solar-Occasions. She allegedly made varied statements about her mom being in a nursing house in one other state, nonetheless dwelling wholesome at house or that she had died.
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Eva Bratcher, 69, was charged with concealing the physique of her 96-year-old mom Regina Michalski in a freezer at their house.
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No explanation for loss of life was instantly often known as an post-mortem was pending.
Cook dinner County court docket data present that Bratcher was arrested practically a dozen instances between 1997 and 2005, and pleaded responsible in 2006 to felony counts of forgery in two circumstances, in response to the paper. She was additionally convicted of misdemeanor battery, for which she was sentenced to probation, and has confronted a slew of different expenses that had been ultimately dropped, together with battery, assault and retail theft.
A 96-year-old girl was discovered useless inside a freezer behind a Chicago house Monday.
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Bratcher’s daughter Sabrina Watson, who lives in Kentucky, instructed the paper that she referred to as police to verify on her grandmother.
“I simply stated, I’m calling [the police] and simply having them do a welfare verify,” Watson stated. “What may go mistaken? Apparently every part.
“My coronary heart is damaged,” she added. “I miss her very a lot.”
Considered one of Michalski’s grandchildren, Diane Michalski, instructed the outlet that she hadn’t seen her grandmother in 20 years.
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Bratcher has a protracted historical past of arrests, in response to court docket data obtained by the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
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“She didn’t need to go that method,” she stated.
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Michalski stated her grandmother was a Polish immigrant who spent most of her life working for Motorola.
Fox Information’ Louis Casiano and the Related Press contributed to this report.