A body found last month in a San Diego freezer is that of an 81-year-old woman who may have been missing for up to nine years.

Family members related to a current resident of the home in the Allied Gardens neighborhood found the body in a running chest freezer on December 22, as CrimeOnline reported. They are not related to the woman, identified as Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones, KNSD reported.

Police said Haxby-Jones is believed to have lived at the house “at some point prior to the discovery of the her body,” but no missing person’s report was ever filed for her.

The medical examiner’s office is still investigating the cause of death, police said, noting that “no obvious traumatic injury to the body was noted.”

“Based on the investigation to this point, detectives believe it is possible that Haxby-Jones may have been missing or dead for up to nine years,” San Diego Police Lt. Jud Campbell said, according to the Times of San Diego.

Campbell said that investigators are looking into whether Haxby-Jones had any relationship with the current residents of the home, KNSD said.

Police are treating the investigation as a “suspicious death.”

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