Isn’t it against the law most places to leave old freezers around without the doors removed or locked with a hasp and lock?
That’s awful. A hasp had been placed on the unplugged and apparently discarded chest freezer which wouldn’t allow for it to be opened from the inside. The kids were found within 30 minutes but had already suffocated.
In before the Goodfellas scene of the guy frozen stiff.
How did they all get in there (especially the one year old) and then shut the lid. They are unbelievably heavy.
And you leave a one year old outside? I would have taken the little one with me.
This still doesn't make a lot of sense.
She left children ages one, four and six outside while she went to the bathroom.
A whole spate of these tragedies happened in the 1950s, causing all the manufacturers to design their freezers so kids couldn’t lock themselves in. Horrible.
Who still owns a freezer with a latching handle? Weren’t those outlawed in the 60s?
A tragedy. Someone should have seen the freezer and realized that it was a dangerous hazard, and chopped it to pieces or locked it securely so that no one could go into it.
I remember the epidemic of deaths in the 50’s when people discarded their old fridges or iceboxes for new ones.
In London around 1900, the number of kids killed each year by falling into the boiling water used to do the wash was around 10,000. Deaths by these sorts of accidents are absurdly rare nowadays - thank god.
Hopefully a thorough investigation and autopsy will show exactly how and where these kids died.
Back in 1968, my father moved our family from Texas to Colorado because he had taken a job there. The house was a lovely split-level ranch home on a huge piece of land. Later, I found out that the previous owners had lost a young boy while living there because he had locked himself in the freezer out in the garage.
I didn’t feel “haunted” and nothing unusual happened to us while we lived there but I found out that, years later, the house was abandoned and became occupied by wild horses seeking to escape the winter cold.
One of the leading causes of death in very young children is a 5 gallon pail, with water in it.
Parents need to assess their homes, and remove the obvious hazards. This freezer was one of those.
What I don’t understand is how the heck did the one year old get into the chest freezer.
I’ve seen many styles of chest freezers and they are all taller then a one year old.
Did the 4 year old pull the 1 year old into it?
Sorry. It makes no sense.
And I cannot accept they’d not look in the chest freezer FIRST. It should never have been there....
Dreadful. RIP.