The dismembered body of a 74-year-old woman was found Friday after neighbors reported a foul odor coming from the house.

Officers went to investigate the bungalow-style house on North Ditmar Street in San Diego around 11:10 am, Sgt. Matt Christensen said.

Sixty-nine-year-old Frederick Hengel was detained shortly afterward in the downtown Oceanside area, Lt. Leonard Mata said. Hengel voluntarily went to police headquarters, where he was arrested.

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Neighbors said they had not seen the woman, who has not been identified yet pending notification to her relatives, for about a month. Several reported hearing what sounded like the screeching of heavy machinery about two weeks ago.

The woman had been seen exposing herself in the area, and her husband had been seen dressed in women’s clothing, jewelry, and makeup.

Adult Protective Services had been referred to the home, but Sgt. Christensen said he didn’t know when or why. Lt. Mata said there had been no record of domestic violence.

Some neighbors called the couple hostile, while another said the woman was harmless and her husband was reclusive.

About six months ago, 21-year-old Erick Chavez said the woman had been seen wandering around the neighborhood carrying a butcher knife and exposing herself with her parents around her ankles. He said this went on for about a month.

Chavez also said the woman preached in the street, saying things like, “God will smite you.” His mother, 59-year-old Olga Heras, said she was afraid of the woman and would not let her grandson play in the yard because of her. She said the family had contacted police several times about her.

Chavez and other neighbors told police they heard what sounded like an electric saw between 8 and 10 pm about two weeks ago.

Frederick Hengel was booked into the Vista Detention Facility on a first-degree murder charge. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office was conducting dual homicide investigations Friday after the remains of two people were found in separate barrels in Lake Hartwell, and deputies named two suspects and released the identities of the man and woman who were killed.

Deputies identified the victims as Andrea Kellie Mitchell, 37, whose address wasn’t known, and Tony Lamar McGinnis, 53, whose last address was Starr. McGinnis was reported missing earlier this month, investigators said.

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Coroner Greg Shore said McGinnis’ body had been dismembered.

Named as suspects in both homicide investigations were John Michael Young, 35, of 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson, and Shaine David Fischer, 34, of 419 W. Whitner St. in Anderson, according to arrest warrants.

Fischer was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of murder, according to warrants. Fischer was in the Anderson County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing, deputies said.

On Friday night, investigators were searching for Young, said Chad McBride, a spokesman for the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.

Warrants charged Young with two counts of murder and one count of unauthorized removal of a dead body.

Any possible motive for the killings hasn’t been established, McBride said.

McGinnis and Mitchell were killed in a wooded area on Hicks Road in Anderson County, according to warrants.

McGinnis died in September and Mitchell in October, the warrants say.

Both suffered blunt force trauma to the head, according to the warrants.

Mitchell’s body was found Wednesday in a plastic barrel that was partially submerged in the lake, authorities said.

Deputies returned to the lake Thursday and found McGinnis’ body in a metal barrel about 10 feet below the water’s surface.