January 26, 2012 Tip leads officers to body of elderly man in freezer www.privateofficer.com
Panama City Fla Jan 26 2012 An informant led investigators to the dead body of an elderly Panama City, Florida, man who had been stuffed in the freezer by his wife, the Panama City News Herald reports.
The informant, whose name is being withheld at this time, apparently didn’t believed a suspect who told him about the crime until he saw the body of 80-year-old Raymond Gsell in the freezer in his garage, according to the incident report.
After realizing the other suspects were serious, the informant pretended he needed to use the bathroom and sneaked away to call law enforcement, the report said. Gsell’s wife, 47-year-old Judy Lynn Gsell, along with 27-year-old Dawn Ross has been charged with strangling Gsell to death.
The suspects overheard the informant on the phone with police and confronted him. The informant fled the scene on foot.
Arrested on charges of accessory after the fact of murder were Ashley Nicole Knowles, 24, and James Timothy Wilson, 51, both of Panama City; and Dale Emmett Hill, 47. Authorities said they are charged in connection with an attempt to help dispose of the body.
Investigators said they believe Judy Gsell and Ross had been smoking crack cocaine, drinking and using prescription medication when they used an electrical cord to strangle Raymond Gsell after an argument over money on Saturday.
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