Police say the body of 93-year-old Marie Hoskins was found in a freezer in the Sebastian home she shared with her daughter. WPTV’s Todd Wilson reports.
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I had evil entitled jealous friends.
He took the meaning of leftovers way to seriously.
Why is it almost normal to turn on the news and hear about yet another body in a freezer in Florida? Like, I bet all the people with bodies in their freezers are watching this right now grateful that is wasn’t them that got caught this time…like fearing the day it’s gonna be their house on the news cause they put Baby in the freezer….🤮
What is more disturbing is then my feed starting suggesting weird stuff. A person just found in a barrel. I just can’t with people anymore! 😞
@JB Jacobs ikr , I seen the barrel one too , and lots of missing 16 year olds ??
Because it’s Florida. That’s why.
It’s common
It happens everywhere. Florida just reports recent crimes and the news catches the strange ones to report quickly.
She was waiting for fuel prices to go down ‘ cremation uses a lot of gas –
That is so cold.
Is this considered a cold case waiting to be solved?
Pun intended?
this is why i scrolled through the comments. 1st prize!
@Gary Callihan I think detectives have their suspect and she is stone cold.
@Manwiththeplan sXe I’m sorry if my comment was out of line. It’s just that this story chilled me to the bone.
Matthew 24:12
Squirrel Covers 05:02
How evil can you get? Put your mother in a freezer?
Smart to check the freezer….
This is our society now where the fear of the bank or the tax man taking your home is so bad that you are afraid of losing your elder mom’s income check.
Being poor doesn’t justify this.
@june2420111 yeah but it creates this. It also creates degenerative behavior in order to escape the harsh reality one faces why you think so many people do drugs, drink, and smoke.
My neighbor across the street is 88 years old and has a really bad relationship with her grown daughters. They never visit her and told her once “Why don’t you just die?” When she had to go into the hospital for a month last year, they broke into her home and started rummaging around. A grand daughter who came to visit her in the hospital stole $800 she had put in a purse she took with her. You never know what people are capable of.
The daughters should’ve taken all their mother’s clothes and her false teeth
@King-Xerxus sorry what’s happened to your grandma. Sounds like pro theft work. Must be done very premeditated. Btw, not all bad children are from bad parents but in most cases when they turned out bad, parents have something to do with. You don’t know what’s going on behind the closed doors. Just like you trusted the caretaker but turned out it’s a planned thief, you don’t know if those people are really nice even if those parents look perfectly nice.
@Bonito Bonita can’t trust anybody these days, even family at times. What even worse sometimes people mean well but still wind up hurting you nevertheless.
@D P928 absolutely
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Sounds like someone hired agent 47…
Be good to your parent so God will be good to you , I lost my Mom due to Covid even we didn’t have close relationship because she thought my younger sister better than me but I love her and wish she still alive
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That is messed up.
Be very good to your parents because it’s the right thing to do as God already said. God is already good to us. So good that He welcomed in His loving arms your mother the moment your mother breathed her last breath and you might ‘assumed’ that she though your younger sister was better than you when ,in fact, your mom might have just simple expect more or better out of you.
A freezer geezer
you got some spaining to do!!!!!
Due to global warming people have started sleeping in deep freezers.
There was a fellow in our town – when his wife died, he kept her body and prayed over it for three days, trying to believe she could still come back to life.
But people were close to them, and figured out what had happened, and the police came and took her away as nicely as possible.
They will be together again someday.
I like police did it nicely. The Poor man couldn’t comprehend the sad reality
Glad no charges
Yeah. A little different I think. He just had a breakdown. I almost did when my sister in law was killed in.a car wreck in college.
Smh, Florida is going crazy… If you don’t believe me just watch our news every day … It’s sad…
I believe you, C K!
This happens everywhere. Florida just reports stories more.
That’s what you call a Florida Popsicle
Some people just die and end up in a freezer
Just what convicted criminals claim.
Just ask the Clintons, man.
Very sad. I hope who ever did this gets caught
It’s the daughter DUH
The coroner said that she was still cool about her state.
Richard Maloney did it.
Hahaha!!
Horrible. My daughter hit me in my face just because I told her to shut up. She would stop cussing at her 9 year old. Morning till night everyday of his life. CPS never did anything. Police did nothing because it was Christmas. The next day she told me I was lucky police came the other night. She kicked my bedroom door in and trashed my room. She called police saying I choked her and she almost dropped her baby. It never happened. Told her 9 year old to say he saw me do it. I took a protection order on her. My daughter was so sure I was going to have to leave my home. Judge made her leave with both children. 6 month old. No furniture. She forced her way back in the house to get some things. I told the judge. Judge told her next time she goes away. Her oldest son lives with his dad . CPS finally went after her. I didn’t want her ever coming back so i let her landlord pick up all her stuff. I had to take her two small dogs to the shelter to be adopted. I’m on disability. She owes me 900 in vet bills. And her pit had to be put down.I couldn’t control him. Violent toward animals and people. She wasn’t nice to her dogs either. I’m glad I can live in peace and no fear before I pass away. She got a place with a nice property owner. I gave her a house full of furniture. CPS will inspect so her 9 year old can come back to live with her and his baby brother. I pray for their protection all the time. I’m in poor health and I just want to live what life left i have in peace. I found out that she went through my things and stole stuff. As long as she’s gone.
You can’t leave it at this – what happened to those kids? Judge made her leave with both children? As a grandma, I would have fought for those babies. You say her oldest lives with his father – is that the 9-year-old? My heart breaks for those kids if she still has them.
As you should. Prayers for you ❤
I’m so sorry
Youre child may not love you Ms. Shirley, but i sure do. Keep god in your heart❤️ i had an aunt named Shirley who passed away 8-9 years ago and on my delivery route there is a older lady named Shirley who i always converse with. Hope you live many many more years and have happinness for the remainder🙂
My neighbor died like this all alone
We ALL die alone. I promise!
Typical Trump supporting republicans and those family values and law and order morals 🤦😂🤦
Don’t be dumb.
Would bet that she died of natural causes but the daughter was keeping her on ice to collect retirement checks.
Why always the freezer ????
@Bill Miller That’s F-up 😂
@Rhonda Landrum How long does that last??
Well, duh! Not like it’s Wisconsin and you can stash the body in the ice house
@Jenny Pulczinski Now I know what to expect from Wisconsin.
Prevents decomposition.
What’s for dinner?
I’ll pull something out of the freezer.
Thats not very funny!!! Smh
Thanks Bill, I needed that. I was about crying
So did her mother die of natural causes and she put her in the freezer in order to keep collecting her social security checks? That would be my first inquiry along with autopsy.
More like the first inquiry of the prosecutor.
Or did she murder her?
@Carolyn Forge Not everyone is a killer.
You are point on. Especially when that money is all they have to live on. It’s a scary thing knowing you could be without money when someone dies. It’s sad.
This may sound shocking, then you learn it it happened in Florida and think to yourself, “Of course this happened in Florida. Just another Monday in Florida.”
Unfortunately I live in Florida and you couldn’t be more right it’s not Paradise it’s a s*** hole.
Happens everywhere all the time.
truthhttps://youtu.be/3RVEXAp6PuU
It happens everywhere. I knew a guy whose friend beheaded his mother and carved symbols into her corpse and put her head in the freezer in California.
doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out
Cold Ethel
Despicable and Diabolocal!
Florida has become the place of the truly deplorable just look at their politicians and who led the state in this direction. It happens in every state but Florida seems to have as many of these crazy people as the other 49 states combined. They breed these phychotic nutjobs
Typical
I like when neighbors call the police to check on their neighbors when they don’t see them or hear from them. It should always be like this.
Yeah don’t knock or anything
@Kristina Jones 😂😂😂
It should but it wouldn’t work in the ‘hood.’
Like always in the freezer?
Always find a body in the freezer.
Air conditioning should be a human right in awful godforsaken states like Florida!
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This is fantastic
The Medical Examiner will determine if she was murdered or if she died of natural causes and was just put in the freezer. Forensic Pathology is awesome. It makes me sad that she was 93 years old, hopefully she wasn’t murdered.
Sometimes people collect the social security of their dead relatives until they are caught.
Probably natural causes but daughter wanted to keep access to funds
That’s just terrible…
This is the second time in a couple of months 😣people are SCUM.
It’s in the crazy state of maga land, it’s to be expected
Gotta keep those Social Security checks coming!
So what’s up with FL? Do all the reporters live there? Do they have a larger population than I think they have? Does the state fortify their water with meth? Why FL? Why are you always in the news?
Sunshine Law.
@Mike Ingle huh?
@Professor Farmgirl SUNSHINE LAWS.
That second neighbor did it
Bernie!!!
Frozen baloney?
Florida! Reckon there must be something in the water.
The 64 year old daughter omg.
WE ARE A FN SCARY SPECIES…
DADUQ 😳
People down in Florida be crazy
TRUMP MUST HAVE PUT HER IN THE FREEZER!!
She was just chillin
Neighbors be neighboring. They know when they haven’t seen someone
Neighbors need to get more involved in there senior neighbors. Even if they have a Relative living inside the home. If you notice the senior hasn’t been out in a few days. Go and Investigate. Call the police.
That’s what they did.
There should be a rule where elderly with no one to look after them should be shifted to old age homes for security.
Old age homes are worse, actually.
you have no next of kin, so we take away your freedom? think about that one a little harder…
If you live to be alone and aged, see how you feel about leaving your home.
If you are working and struggling, it is hard to take care of your elder parents. especially when they have dementia, like my parents did. If someone in our family was available, we surely would have preferred to have them at home. We did that for as long as we could, taking turns stating with them, but when my dad would run off, in the middle of the night, we just could not risk him getting hurt. We chose a nursing home that we know the people working there well because we are not fond of nursing homes, in general. Taking care of elderly parents is very stressful, but it is our duty to take care of them. Yes, it is a disruption in our lives, but generally only temporary. There are many more disruptions in life. We all need to be strong, deal with them and make ourselves stronger. Our parents suffered a lot more than we did. They went through World War 2, the Cyprus invasion by Turkey, took care of many of their relatives over the years. They really suffered for us for over 40 years, so why can we not suffer for 3-4 year for them? Is it too much to ask?
The daughter not answering the door makes her prime suspect.
God bless her and her family she is in a very beautiful place 🙏💙
The freezer??
Always in Florida 🫣😅
Being old and alone has to be such a sad and scary existence. I don’t wish it upon anyone
Maybe the woman was hot and decided the freezer was a nice cool place to lie down?
😢
Make a house wife from a s_ut are u crazy. I’m looking for a girl with no self esteem
Was there a laptop in there? Keep looking!
She was just vibin’ doe
Why know one talking about the dog?
Grandma are you cold you look a little stiff?
Gotta keep those Social Security checks coming-in.
Wow
Biden’s fault.
Just ask governor DeathSentence
Lord, this fool done killed her own mother, how 😔 😟 😢
Florida…. shocker
She was just chillin’….
This is not th first scheme I have seen. The killer roommates show on Netflix has a similar case, of this woman killing multiple people over the years to collect their government checks.
Florida never misses a day in the national news..
😁😁
typical behavior
OmG!
STATUS QUO FOR THE REPUBLICAN, DE EVOVED, QANON, WHACK JOB SOUTH…..
How sad
Only in Florida, that state is trash. I wouldn’t be surprised if they search desantis home and find the same thing…
Hey freeze me when I die with my middle finger extended! That’s what I think of you!
The daughter has been living in the house with her mother missing, yet the neighbors were the ones to call for a welfare check?? whatever the case may be whoever had the bright idea to put her in the freezer only preserved all the evidence.
Maybe the daughter smoked crack and watched Demolition Man.
That’s crazy.
Yall are petty asf
Jeffrey Dahmer came back
I had an Elderly Neighbor, Mr. Andersen, aged 94, back 5yrs ago. who always watered his plants Morning and Evening, out with his Dog. It was a week before Christmas, I noticed for two days he hasn’t been out, or his Dog, so I went to check, but the Gates were locked. I ended up calling the Police, for a Welfare Check, they came entered the Property. The Door of his home was unlocked, I could hear his Dog bark and crying out, They discovered him deceased on his Sofa, with the t.v. on and a plate of food on the side table. About an hour later, his Family, that visit him on Weekends, showed up and were in total shock of the amount of Police Presence and Caution Tape, around their Dad’s/Grandfather’s home, I was there and a Detective told them the Tragic News.
You are a good neighbor, even when sad events occur.
Florida keeping it classy, as always!
People are so selfish. It was about the money and house. NO more honoring our parents. What a dirty shame!
Don’t let anything stop those checks from coming in.
May she rest in peace.
Who killed that old lady. POS dustys. Rip
Killing elderly and kids
So you just kicking it with your feet up on the coffee table while your mom’s dead body is in the freezer like it’s no big deal…
if her daughter hadnt seen her mother in awhile and she lived there too, why didnt she report her missing? i think she was going to keep it quiet and cash the old age security cheques
Florida 🤦♂️
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