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Mass couple charged after victim’s body found in basement freezer – A couple faces charges after the body of a 37-year-old man was found in a chest freezer in their basement.

According to a news release from the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office, on Friday, Dec. 2, Lowell Police officers performed a welfare check on Coburn Street. Officers reportedly searched the home and located the victim’s body. The District Attorney’s Office said the victim had been restrained in the home prior to his death.

Mass couple charged after victim’s body found in basement freezer

The suspects, Michael Burke and Samantha Perry, both 38, lived with the victim and attacked him on Nov. 23, WCVB-TV reports. The couple then reportedly restrained the victim, who allegedly struggled with opioid addiction, to a chair before duct-taping his mouth.

Mass couple charged after victim’s body found in basement freezer

A court document obtained by WCVB alleges that Perry and Burke told authorities a third person strangled the victim with a rope.

According to WCVB, Perry told investigators, “(The other person) attacked the bound (victim), wrapped the green rope around (his) neck and strangled him until he was apparently deceased.”

Perry and Burke reportedly placed the victim’s body into the freezer where it was later found.

Perry and Burke told investigators they were forced to join in on the criminal activity at gunpoint by the third person, WCVB reports.

On Dec. 3, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Barry Golner announced that Burke and Perry were charged with kidnapping. They reportedly pleaded not guilty and were scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, Dec. 5.

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