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A North Carolina resident bought a freezer for $30 at a neighbor’s yard sale — only to discover an elderly woman’s body inside, police and local media said Wednesday.

The Goldsboro Police Department said the remains were confirmed to be those of a local woman who died of natural causes. It did not identify the woman.

The body was “intact and not dismembered in any way,” the police department said in a statement following an autopsy Wednesday.

The woman who found the body told NBC station WRAL she bought the freezer at a neighbor’s yard sale last month. The woman, who…

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