Man found dead in a Minnesota freezer was hiding from police, investigators say
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A man found dead in a freezer in northeast Minnesota last month was hiding from police, investigators said in a preliminary report.
The body of 34-year-old Brandon Lee Buschman of Babbitt, Minnesota, was found in a chest freezer in the basement of an unoccupied home in the town of Biwabik on June 26.
Investigators believe Buschman was in the house hiding because there was an active warrant for his arrest, police said in a news release Friday. They believe that he got into the freezer to hide on his own accord, perhaps because officers were in the area.
The freezer was an older model that could not be opened from the inside, police said. The house had no electricity and the freezer was not running when Buschman's body was found.
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