Two women have been charged in the US with alleged abuse of a corpse after propping up his body to withdraw money from his bank account, police said.
Loreen Feralo, 55, and Karen Kasbohm, 63, lived with 80-year-old Douglas Layman in a house in the town of Ashtabula on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio, NBC, Sky’s US partner, said.
The women were said to have found their housemate dead on Monday, and, instead of reporting his death, carried his body to the front seat of his car, where they propped it up, and drove to his bank where they took out an undisclosed amount, which the New York Post put at $900.
They were also charged with theft after being arrested on Wednesday, other sources, including the Law and Crime website said, quoting court records.
The trio had been to the bank together before and were known to staff there, Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell said in a statement.
Mr Layman had even allowed them to withdraw money from his account when the trio had visited the bank in the past, Chief Stell said.
The suspects used the bank’s drive-through till, Chief Stell told the Star Beacon, but their scheme began to come apart when they took the body to the Ashtabula County Medical Center.
