Video from a police body camera showed the moment the officer assaulted him. discovered The body of an elderly woman was stored in a freezer after an argument with a transgender woman who claimed she was not home.
“Yes, there are people here. …Go and handcuff them.”
Jazlyn Rausch is 37 years old. accused He is accused of murdering 68-year-old Monique Gilbertson and hiding her body in a mobile home in Las Vegas, Nevada.
video released Officers are shown arguing with Rausch on Nov. 6, asking him to enter his home and search Gilbertson, according to Clark County District Court. Rausch said the woman had been renting the property to him since September.
Eventually, Rausch and his wife went outside and allowed the police to search their home, which they found was littered with trash and appeared to be in disrepair. They find a locked chest freezer and make a horrifying discovery.
“Yes, there are people here.” say Official. “Go and let them handcuff you.”
According to the arrest report, Rausch, whose real name is Daniel Rausch, met Gilbertson at a hardware store before being invited to his home. Eventually, complaints about Rausch's mess led Gilbertson to try to evict his roommate.
“Good luck, but I can't live with anyone else. I'm so sorry,” read an email to Rausch in October. “The sooner you come, the sooner we can finish…”
Police conducted a welfare check after Gilbertson's acquaintances reported her missing.
Rausch told police he found Gilbertson's body but gave conflicting accounts of where the body was found.
“I didn't know what to do, so I put her in an icebox,” Rausch told police.
Rausch's wife, Gina Lopez, told police that she provided Rausch with fentanyl to mix with cocaine and cause Gilbertson to overdose. Investigators estimated that the woman's body had been in the freezer for more than four days. He also said she had 200 times the lethal dose of fentanyl in her system.
Mr. Rausch was charged with second-degree murder and Mr. Lopez was charged with drug charges. redux reported Rausch had prior felony convictions for child abuse, neglect and endangerment.
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for Rush, according to court records.
Some of the videos can be viewed below news coverage From KLAS-TV on YouTube.
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