The would-be Internet lover of a North Yorkshire man, who kept her dead housemate in a freezer for a year, has pleaded guilty to fraud and unlawful removal of a dead body in the United States.
Trevor Tasker, of Mill Lane, Carlton, near Selby had flown to the United States after a whirlwind email romance with Wynema Faye Shumate, 66, of South Carolina.
They had swapped messages of love and photographs over the Internet, but it was not until he dropped everything and flew out to be with her that the truth unfolded.
Shumate was not the attractive young lady he had been expecting, but a 65-year-old pensioner weighing 20st.
And when police called at Shumate's door investigating a theft, she panicked and disclosed to Mr Tasker her grisly secret - there was a corpse in her freezer.
Updated: 14:45 Thursday, February 08, 2001
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