--- title: North Carolina Woman Finds Body Inside $30 Yard-Sale Freezer description: A North Carolina resident bought a freezer for $30 at a neighbor's yard sale — only to discover an elderly woman's body inside. canonical: https://time.com/4354889/woman-finds-body-inside-yard-sale-freezer/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-02T14:03:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:20:54.294Z article:section: U.S. og:title: North Carolina Woman Finds Body Inside $30 Yard-Sale Freezer og:description: 'I opened it up for a second time and my heart went into my throat' og:url: https://time.com/4354889/woman-finds-body-inside-yard-sale-freezer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30d607e80f4015ce/698895f8a988ca2ddc6b8145/body-freezer-dead-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Fridge og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: North Carolina Woman Finds Body Inside $30 Yard-Sale Freezer twitter:description: 'I opened it up for a second time and my heart went into my throat' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30d607e80f4015ce/698895f8a988ca2ddc6b8145/body-freezer-dead-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # North Carolina Woman Finds Body Inside $30 Yard-Sale Freezer by [Shamar Walters and Hanna Guerrero / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Shamar Walters and Hanna Guerrero / NBC News Jun 2, 2016 2:03 PM CUT  Neihu Taiwab freezer. Neihu Taiwab freezer.TC Lin—Getty Images by [Shamar Walters and Hanna Guerrero / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Shamar Walters and Hanna Guerrero / NBC News Jun 2, 2016 2:03 PM CUT 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 ](http://www.wral.com/goldsboro-woman-s-remains-found-inside-chest-freezer/15744719/ "undefined")she bought the freezer at a neighbor’s yard sale last month. The woman, who… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/north-carolina-woman-finds-body-inside-30-yard-sale-freezer-n584426?cid=par-time-article%5F20141002 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4354889/woman-finds-body-inside-yard-sale-freezer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4354889/woman-finds-body-inside-yard-sale-freezer/"},"headline":"North Carolina Woman Finds Body Inside $30 Yard-Sale Freezer","datePublished":"2016-06-02T14:03:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:20:54.294Z","description":"'I opened it up for a second time and my heart went into my throat'","url":"https://time.com/4354889/woman-finds-body-inside-yard-sale-freezer/","keywords":["Crime","North Carolina","local"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30d607e80f4015ce/698895f8a988ca2ddc6b8145/body-freezer-dead-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shamar Walters and Hanna Guerrero / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30d607e80f4015ce/698895f8a988ca2ddc6b8145/body-freezer-dead-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fridge","caption":"","creditText":"TC Lin—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4354889/woman-finds-body-inside-yard-sale-freezer/","name":"North Carolina Woman Finds Body Inside $30 Yard-Sale Freezer"}}]}] ```