Man Found Dead In Wife’s Freezer After A Decade Left Note Saying She Didn’t Kill Him

TOOELE, Utah (CBS Local) — A man found dead in a freezer may have planned to keep his death a secret to help his wife collect government benefits, police in Utah said.
Officers found the body of Paul Edward Mathers, 69, in a chest-style freezer on Nov. 22, shortly after his wife died of natural causes in a retirement community in Tooele, about 35 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Investigators believe his wife, Jeanne Souron-Mathers, 75, had put her husband in the freezer after he died be