Son Arrested On Homicide Charges After Father's Body Found Stuffed Inside Freezer

A Philadelphia man has been arrested on homicide charges a month after his father's body was found stuffed inside a freezer.

Deputies were called to a South Philadelphia home on Dec. 23 after some family members found blood and a knife inside the house during a wellness check.

Officers searched the residence and discovered an unidentified body inside a freezer in the basement of the row house. They could not immediately identify the victim, whose body was found face down in the freezer box, but said a father and son were the only ones living there, CBS News reported.

Police later identified the victim as 54-year-old Thi Dinh. Thi's son, 27-year-old Jack Dinh, was arrested Saturday on charges of homicide, possessing instruments of crime and abuse of a corpse, 6 ABC reported.

The discovery of the body shook the South Philadelphia neighborhood last month. A neighbor who was walking his dog early in the morning on Dec. 23 reportedly heard someone screaming for help.

"It was around 3:30, 4 in the morning, there was some screaming out in the street," the neighbor told CBS News.

The motive for the murder was not known. Police have not revealed further details of the case.

The suspect is being held without bail at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, reports said. According to court records, he is scheduled to appear in court next month.

In a similar incident last month, a man's dead body was found inside a chest freezer in the basement of a Massachusetts home. Investigators arrested Michael Burke and Samantha Perry for allegedly restraining the victim, holding him against his will, and leaving his dead body in the freezer. However, the suspects claimed the unidentified man was killed by a third person who held them at gunpoint and forced them to take part in the crime. Investigators said the body was "folded over" to fit it inside the freezer.