In late July of 2018, a 54-year-old Akron, Ohio woman named Martha Freitag called police to see if the restraining order she previously had on her on-again-off-again, live-in boyfriend, 53-year-old David Callaghan could be reinstated. Her pleas for help went ignored, as she had been struggling with paranoid Schizophrenia and often called police on her boyfriend. Little did police know, this would be the last time Martha was heard from or seen alive again. Later that year in September, Martha's daughter Kim pressured police to investigate her disappearance. Police did not take her calls seriously, leaving Kim to do her own investigation until one day when the family recieved a strange text message explaining that David would bury someone in the fire pit in the back yard. Upon investigating, the body of Martha Freitag was uncovered in the fire pit, wrapped in plastic, bedding, burnt, and showing signs of blunt force trauma with a rope still tied around her neck. 


Sources
Summit County Prosecutor (2019)
Akron Beacon Journal (2019) 
Akron Beacon Journal (2018)
Fox 19 (2018)
Fox 8 CLE+ (2018, 2019)

Some information and body cam footage obtained from:

Dr. Insanity- Daughter Finds Mother's Decapitated Body in Backyard (2025) 




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