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Man whose body was in his wife’s freezer for 10 years may have written a letter absolving her of blame

The man whose frozen body was found in his wife’s Tooele apartment apparently left a notarized letter indicating that she didn’t kill him — she just kept his body in a freezer in her home for more than a decade.

The letter — believed to have been written by Paul Edward Mathers and signed Dec. 2, 2008 — “was found in the home,” sad Tooele City Police Sgt. Jeremy Hansen. “It says that his wife was not responsible for his death.”

He said handwriting experts have not verified Mathers' signature, but detectives have spoken with the woman who notarized the letter.