Terrifying body camera footage has shown the moment cops discovered a woman's body in a freezer while carrying out a welfare check.
This shocking discovery was made by two police officers from Las Vegas.
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They were called to conduct a welfare check on Monique Gilbertson in November after her transgender houseguest allegedly killed her.
Video captured from officers' body cameras shows officers searching the home using a locksmith after houseguest Daniel Roche refused to answer the door.
Roche, a transgender woman known as Jazlyn Marie Roche, lived with the 68-year-old woman.
But Monique was reportedly trying to evict her guest before her untimely death.
When police arrived to check on Gilbertson, the 37-year-old said “she's not here now” and claimed she was sitting in the house before saying she had “rights” to the property.
The footage shows the moment the police enter the utility room of the house, where one of the officers lifts a sheet placed on a large object.
The white sheet was covered with random things like toilet paper and clothes.
Another officer can be heard asking: “What is this?”
Roche answered hesitantly, saying it was the freezer.
A locksmith was then called to come and open the locked refrigerator, and the horrific discovery was made.
“There's something there,” one of the policemen said.
The officer lit his torch in the freezer and lifted the white lid before finding Gilberton's frozen body.
The officer quickly told his colleague, “There's someone here. Go and handcuff him.”
The 68-year-old woman was missing for two weeks before police found her on November 6.
Clark County Prosecutor James Puccinelli told the New York Post that she had been “folded” in a freezer and that her body had been “frozen for some time.”
Roche was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
But she told cops she found Gilbertson collapsed on a dining room chair and panicking at not knowing what to do so she “put her in the ice chest.”
Roche also claimed she thought Gilbertson had taken a drug overdose, despite having no history of alcohol or drugs.
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Prosecutors allege Roche “force-fed Gilbertson” more than 200 times the amount of fentanyl that would kill a person.
She allegedly did so “willfully, unlawfully, criminally, and with malice” causing Gilbertson's death, prosecutors say, according to a report by Law & Crime.
Roach's wife, Gina Lopez, who was also at the property during the welfare check, was arrested on drug charges related to the incident but is not charged with murder.
Gilbertson is believed to have been murdered around October 22, the day she sent away her unwanted guest.
Police found text messages between the couple with the 68-year-old owner saying: “I can't live with anyone, I'm so sorry.”
“I've been helping you for a lot longer than I thought, so I'll just think of it as a gift. So, you'll have to find someone else.”
She reportedly invited Roche to live with her temporarily after learning she was homeless, according to court documents seen by The Post.
But she quickly became frustrated and “annoyed by how dirty” her new guest was and kicked Roche out before changing the locks.
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