A Las Vegas woman’s body was found stuffed inside her freezer weeks after she called the cops with concerns about her ex-roommate who’s since been accused of killing her and living alongside her body, according to a report.
Monique Gilbertson, 68, was found inside the icebox of her home after police responded to a wellness check request by an employee in her 55-and-older community, 8 News Now reported.
“She called you guys about two weeks ago,” the employee told a dispatcher in the 911 call obtained by the local station. “She had a roommate issue, and she called because in her roommate’s stuff, she had found a gun, but I don’t know how far she got with that phone call. She said that she couldn’t get a hold of you guys she was going to like throw it in the trash.”
The roommate, 37-year-old Daniel Roush, met Gilbertson at a store and she invited him to move in with her, according to arrest documents obtained by 8 News Now.
Though originally they got along, Gilbertson became “upset about how filthy Roush was,” and kicked him out around Oct. 22 and changed the locks, the outlet reported.
The employee who called for the wellness check told police that Gilbertson would call the property management office several times a day, but around the same date — Oct. 22, the calls stopped.
Police said that when they conducted the wellness check on Nov. 6, Roush and a woman were inside the house with Gilbertson nowhere to be found, the station reported.
Roush asked the officers if they had a warrant to look at the freezer, according to documents, and that he found Gilbertson slumped over in a dining room chair and decided to “put her in the icebox” because he didn’t know what to do.
He allegedly told police that he suspected Gilbertson had overdosed on cocaine or fentanyl she purchased from him.
The employee who requested the welfare check told the 911 dispatcher that she didn’t believe Gilbertson used drugs or drank alcohol, according to the station.
Documents did not indicate how police suspect Gilbertson may have died, only that she was located in the freezer and that there was little blood.
Roush has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of Monique Gilbertson. As of Friday, Gilbertson’s cause and manner of death were still pending.
