A woman from Chicago has been accused of hiding her mother’s remains after the 96-year-old woman’s body was discovered Monday in a freezer behind the apartment building where they lived.
Police discovered the death of Eva Bratcher’s mother, Regina Michalski, in a garage during a welfare check at around 4:35 p.m. near the 5500 block of West Melrose Street.
Michalski was found in the freezer of a garage behind the house. He was surrounded by trash. When officers discovered her body, it was unknown how long she had been dead.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Bratcher has told different stories about her mother to different people in the past few months. She is told that her mother was in a nursing home in another state, that she was still alive and well at home, or that she had passed away.
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Since an autopsy had not yet been done, no one knew what caused the death immediately.
The paper says that between 1997 and 2005, Bratcher was arrested almost a dozen times, according to Cook County court records. In 2006, she pleaded guilty to two felony counts of forgery. She was also found guilty of misdemeanor battery and given probation. She was also charged with several later dropped crimes, such as battery, assault, and retail theft.
Sabrina Watson, who lives in Kentucky and is Bratcher’s daughter, told the paper that she called the police to see how her grandmother was doing.
Watson: “I just said I’m going to call the police and have them do a welfare check.” What could go wrong? It looks like everything.
She also said, “My heart is broken.” “I really miss her.” Diane Michalski, one of Michalski’s grandchildren, said that she hadn’t seen her grandmother in 20 years. She said, “She didn’t deserve to die that way.”
Michalski said that her grandmother came to the United States from Poland and worked for Motorola for most of her life.
