The body of an 87-year-old retired cop has been found in a freezer at the California home she shared with her daughter, police say.
Police were asked to conduct a welfare check in Riverside by relatives who said they had not heard off the woman for two months.
The woman was named by relatives as Miriam Travis, a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide detective, the Press-Enterprise reports.
Her live-in daughter, named by neighbors only as Carol, was questioned by police about her mother's death and the storing of the body, and was released, the newspaper said.
The Riverside County Coroner's Office has yet to publicly announce that the dead woman was Travis as of Monday, a spokesman said.
However, deputy Maria Lucero, an LA County sheriff's representative, said that Travis was a sergeant at the homicide bureau from 1979 until she retired in 1990.
After retiring, Travis moved to the Riverside home with her husband, but he died two years later and the mother and daughter became increasingly reclusive, the Press-Enterprise reports.
Miriam Travis, 87, was found dead in a freezer in the garage of her home on New Ridge Drive in Riverside, California, according to the Riverside Police Department said
Another relative asked for police to carry out a wellness check on Sunday morning after becoming concerned about not hearing from her, Riverside Police Officer Javier Cabrera said.
Cabrera said
