Man hid dead body in the freezer for ten years

A court in Berlin sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of a retired man and the hiding of the dismembered body in a freezer.

The 56-year-old trader of second-hand items killed the retired man in Berlin around the turn of the year 2006/2007 and hidden in the freezer. He told the court that he had found the man dead in his home and then put it in the freezer.

With the pension of the victim, he paid for his gambling addiction, according to German media Wednesday. How the case came to light is not clear.