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Woman hid her Ardmore grandmother’s body in a freezer for 15 years to steal her Social Security checks, police say
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 27 May 2020 | Julie Shaw

Posted on 05/28/2020 6:38:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java

A 61-year-old Pennsylvania woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with theft and abuse of corpse for allegedly hiding her dead grandmother’s body in a freezer for 15 years so she could collect the woman’s Social Security benefits, state police said.

Cynthia Carolyn Black of York County had told police during their more than yearlong investigation that she had found Glenora Reckford Delahay dead inside their home in the Delaware County section of Ardmore in March 2004, police said.

Black carried the body to the basement and put it in a freezer because, she said, she needed her grandmother’s Social Security income.

The grandmother was 97 when she died.

Black told police that three years after her grandmother’s death, she moved the freezer with the body to Dillsburg, York County, and used the Social Security income to pay the mortgage on a home.

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To: COBOL2Java

She stole over $350K, but her bail is only $10K?
A woman’s privilege happens again.
She was sloppy. Should have disposed of the body long ago.


21 posted on 05/28/2020 6:56:32 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: DeplorablePaul

It pays to plan ahead, and to keep the plans flexible to adapt to changing circumstances...


22 posted on 05/28/2020 6:58:49 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: a fool in paradise
Social Security didn’t find it odd that she was allegedly 112 years old

No kidding. Usually those gov't workers are sharp as tacks.

23 posted on 05/28/2020 7:01:31 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: x; a fool in paradise

Gotta read the whole story friend. According to the story the SSA had nothing to do with locoming in to it. she was discovered this way:

“According to a report by WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Delahay’s body had been found by two women who had been inspecting the Kralltown Road home because they were interested in buying it from the bank after it foreclosed. The potential buyers had told police they were looking around in an outbuilding when they discovered remains wrapped in trash bags and under blankets in a white chest freezer, the TV station reported.”


24 posted on 05/28/2020 7:02:21 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: a fool in paradise

So the government has enormous surveillance powers over all of its citizens but it can’t figure out a computer program that would allow it to find oddities in checks going out to Social Security recipients.


25 posted on 05/28/2020 7:02:26 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: x

It makes sense,

Grandmother was 97 when she died so Her Granddaughter was around 46 then (depending on the Month).

So 46 years from her birth Grandma was 51 years old, when this human debris was born. So Mama had to be mother sometime in her what 20’s 30’s at the latest.


26 posted on 05/28/2020 7:02:39 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: lee martell
She was sloppy. Should have disposed of the body long ago.

Yes, and then tell them that she moved to Guyana with a friend 16 years ago and she hasn't heard from her. It would be cool for the Fed boys to be searching the jungles of Guyana for her. lolol.

27 posted on 05/28/2020 7:03:17 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Guilty

28 posted on 05/28/2020 7:03:28 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: CaptainK

With driver’s licenses etc they used to make you come into the office at least every 8-10 years.

No wellness check?


29 posted on 05/28/2020 7:04:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: COBOL2Java

Social Security buys predominantly Democrat votes. So many people forget that. Once they learn that, then they will know why so much corruption and fraud occurs there (and with other Federal agencies as well).


30 posted on 05/28/2020 7:04:57 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: billorites
After 15 years must have had a helluva freezer burn.

Wonder if it took three days to thaw her out, like it did Frankie Carbone?

31 posted on 05/28/2020 7:05:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Drango
Red flags should have gone off...you would think SS would have an algorithm to automatically check after a certain age.

They do. SSA managers are supposed to contact every recipient over age 100 annually. If the recipient is over a certain age and hasn't used Medicare in a certain amount of time, the manager is supposed to make a face to face contact.

I imagine there's a manager or two who's got some 'splainin to do.

32 posted on 05/28/2020 7:07:39 AM PDT by Terabitten (Breathe. Relax. Aim. Squeeze.)
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To: COBOL2Java

“”more than yearlong investigation””

They’re kidding. What took so long? Did they have to make sure the grandmother didn’t crawl into the freezer to commit suicide?


33 posted on 05/28/2020 7:10:32 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: V_TWIN
These two women discovered the body in Feb 2019. From the article:

Police issued an arrest warrant for Black on Tuesday, but did not say why the investigation took more than 15 months. She was taken into custody Wednesday and brought to the York County Judicial Center, where she was arraigned. She has a tentative preliminary hearing scheduled for June 10.

34 posted on 05/28/2020 7:11:12 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: CaptainK
but it can’t figure out a computer program that would allow it to find oddities in checks going out to Social Security recipients.

Any person who filed a 2018 income tax return who died in 2019 would have received the stimulus check too.....

35 posted on 05/28/2020 7:11:25 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: CGASMIA68

she’s a woman

she will get s v-pass


36 posted on 05/28/2020 7:14:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CGASMIA68

An easy audit would be no claims on Medicare after eligible age. Just set a time limit and trigger a proof of life.
Many of these govt give always could avoid fraud with some simple data based audits. But Congress has blocked them to allow fraud.


37 posted on 05/28/2020 7:15:34 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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To: COBOL2Java

It’s near Haverford College. Only a few miles from Villanova. Homes in this area are not cheap. I don’t see how anyone on Social Security can afford the property taxes. This woman must have a lot of extra income besides her deceased grandmothers SS checks.


38 posted on 05/28/2020 7:16:46 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: a fool in paradise

SSA? More people in gov’t. jobs they are not capable of doing.


39 posted on 05/28/2020 7:18:52 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: COBOL2Java

“Cynthia, dear, it’s cold in here.”

“Shut up, or I’ll take out the little light bulb, too.”


40 posted on 05/28/2020 7:29:28 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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