Man charged with homicide after human head found in freezer

having a pool to us kids back then!” recalls Bessi.

But for everyone, it was just a known price to pay.

“People just didn’t complain about the heat back then. It was summertime so we knew it was going to be hot and we just went about our business,” says Eunice.

While it’s safe to say that this summer has been a hot one so far, we should consider ourselves lucky to live in an age where we have more weapons to fight the heat than ever before. Stay cool out there.

Will Cano is a junior at Owen J. Roberts High School who has a passion for the weather. You can find him on any given day reciting weather forecasts and events to his peers. Will founded the Meteorology Club at his high school and is currently the president. He also won awards in the middle school science fair from both NASA and the American Meteorological Society with his project on atmospheric aerosols and hurricanes.

LANCASTER, PA. » A Pennsylvania man faces homicide charges after a human head was found in a freezer at his family’s home and a dismembered body was found in a bed.

Donald Meshey Jr., 32, also faces counts of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and abuse of a corpse. It wasn’t known Thursday if he’s retained an attorney.

Lancaster police went to the home around 8:50 a.m. Wednesday in a response to a phone call from a woman asking for a welfare check on a relative. She said Meshey had told her there was a head in a freezer at the home and a body in a bed. She also told police she believed she had seen the head in the freezer while inside the residence.

When officers spoke with Meshey, he took them to the kitchen and removed what appeared to be a human head from the freezer. The Lancaster County Coroner’s Office later confirmed the head was human, police said.

Meshey later told detectives he stabbed a body in his father’s bedroom multiple times and then dismembered the body, which he referred to as a “cadaver doll.” Police did not include further information about what that meant.

Officials have not yet confirmed the victim’s identity, saying only that it was a male and that an autopsy was scheduled for Thursday. It also wasn’t clear how many people lived in the home or if anyone else was there when the attack occurred.

IMAGE CREDIT: 47ABC A table using dew points and the real temperature to create the Heat Index, or “Feels Like” temperature.

IMAGE CREDIT: GEOGRAPHY 101ONLINE A diagram representing air flow in high vs low pressure systems. High pressure systems create dry weather, like heat waves, while low pressure systems create storms.

MEDIANEWS GROUP PHOTO Adults and kids keep cool in the excessive heat Thursday afternoon at Whitpain Greens Swim Club.