Police: Man Preserved Wife's Body In Freezer For 6 Years
75-Year-Old Wanted To Bring Her Back To Life
POSTED: 6:10 p.m. EDT September 3, 2003
UPDATED: 6:28 p.m. EDT September 3, 2003
A 75-year-old man who hoped to bring his dead wife back to life was arrested in Prescott, Ariz., after police found her body packed into a refrigerator with dry ice.
Police said Edwin Rowlette froze his wife's body at the couple's home in the 1100 block of Willow Creek Road to preserve her -- six years ago.
Rowlette said his wife of many years had died of natural causes and that he hoped to someday bring her back to life.
He said he used a type of cryogenic freezing process to preserve the body.
Prescott, Arizona is north of Phoenix.
