A man from Ohio is accused of stashing the remains of what police believe is his missing former girlfriend in a freezer that he bought with his new, live-in girlfriend.
After Katrina Layton moved in last month with Arturo Novoa in Youngstown, Ohio, she began using the telephone of Novoa’s missing former girlfriend, driving her car and caring for her dog.
Layton and Novoa have been charged with the abuse of a corpse, which was discovered on Saturday in several bags inside the freezer by Novoa’s landlord’s wife.
Novoa had asked his landlord if he could move the freezer down to the landlord’s basement because his electricity had been shut off and “he didn’t want his freezer full of meat to spoil,” the police report said.
The landlord’s wife became suspicious after seeing the freezer was padlocked and decided to break in.
Novoa’s former girlfriend, Shannon Graves, was reported missing on June 22.
Investigators believe it is Graves’ body that was stashed in the freezer, but the Cuyahoga County medical examiner has not yet confirmed the corpse’s identity.
Layton told police she bought the freezer from a Walmart store in early July and supplied the extension cord to plug it in at Novoa’s building.
The couple is in jail and is still to be appointed lawyers, Lantz said. They are next due in court on Monday, Lantz said and could face additional charges once the identity of the body is confirmed.
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