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PORTLAND, Ore. » The bodies of two people were found in a freezer at a Springfield house after a man who lived there with his parents called 911 to ask for a police negotiator.
Police Sgt. Rich Charboneau said Wednesday he could not confirm that the bodies were those of a missing couple. He said no charges had been filed.
Officers went to the house twice in the past two weeks after an out-of-state relative couldn’t reach the family and asked for welfare checks. Charboneau said. The first time was June 15, the second was Monday.
Both times, he said, notes on the door said the family was away.
An officer followed up by returning to the home Tuesday and knocked on the door as a man inside called 911 and asked for the negotiator, Charboneau said.
Additional officers arrived and forced their way into the house when there was no response. The man inside had an injury not considered life-threatening and remained in a hospital.
His name was not released, and police said only that he was bleeding. Police have not said how the two people were killed.
A neighbor, Bob Wilson, told The Register-Guard newspaper that a woman who lived at the home confided that her husband was a heavy drinker and abusive. Wilson said he encouraged her to contact an agency that assists women facing domestic violence.
Wilson and other neighbors said the adult son got into frequent arguments with the father.
"I feared violence, there was so much hatred toward each other," Wilson told the newspaper.
Springfield is about 100 miles south of Portland.
