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A man in Sweden found guilty of storing his partner’s dead body in a freezer to cash in her pension

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced a 57-year-old Norwegian man for fraud and falsifying records for putting his dead partner in a freezer and cashing in her pension. He was given a 3.5-year prison term. A district court said Monday that the man, who was not named, had stored the body in the freezer which he also used to store food. Investigators found he woman’s body in the freezer in March following a tip. The court said he kept quiet about the death in order to get her pension from neighboring Norway. The two lived west of Stockholm.

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