A 32-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after officers responded to his home and found a human head in the freezer and the body in a bedroom.
According to the Lancaster Bureau of Police, at 8:51 a.m. on August 11, officers responded to a residence on the 200 block of West Strawberry Street for a welfare check on family members. The person who called police said one of the residents, Donald Meshey Jr., told her “there was a cadaver in one of the beds in the home and there was a head in the freezer.”
Meshey Jr. was arrested on charges of criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
According to WGAL, the victim was identified as Donald Meshey Sr. WGAL, citing court documents, reports Meshey allegedly used a hand saw to dismember the body. He then allegedly placed the arms, legs, and head in garbage bags, and put the head in the freezer Wednesday. The torso was reportedly put into a footlocker, then taken outside into a car.
Meshey was booked into the Lancaster County Jail and was denied bail.
