The discovery was made on August 8, 2024 in northeast Bexar County after the family didn’t hear from 76-year-old Robert Gibson for months.
SAN ANTONIO — A man is heading to court Wednesday after deputies say they found his father’s body chained up in a freezer nearly a year ago.
The discovery was made on August 8, 2024 in northeast Bexar County after the family didn’t hear from 76-year-old Robert Gibson for months.
His son, David Michael Gibson, was arrested shortly after.
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Gibson’s defense team said Wednesday’s meeting would be a plea hearing for his charge of tampering with a corpse.
Deputies and Gibson’s family made the discovery at Robert Gibson’s home on the 7500 block of Rustic Trail Drive.
His family wanted deputies to do a welfare check because no one heard from him in months.
When deputies showed up, they say they had a Ring camera conversation with someone pretending to be Robert.
The family confirmed to BCSO it wasn’t Robert’s voice, so they went back to investigate.
While David Gibson was talking with investigators, the arrest report reveals deputies and Gibson’s family found a freezer in the garage strapped shut.
Inside it, they found Robert’s decomposing body.
Investigators couldn’t determine if Robert died or was killed because of his body’s condition.
Deputies believe David was living there while cashing checks in his father’s name.
David Gibson’s charge is a second-degree felony of tampering or fabricating evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.
No word yet on what he can get for a sentence.