That was my first thought, somebody illegally disposing of grandpa to keep the ss and/pension checks coming in.
It would be easy for a 60 year old man to impersonate his 80 year old father, especially if he had avoided most medical care so there aren’t any real records.
Problem is, they usually aren’t mentally competent enough to do a good job at disposing of the body and it gets discovered.
I do know that SS has more centenarians enrolled than is statistically likely.
Oh, they don’t bother to “impersonate”. They just keep the checks coming in.
But most of the time, it’s not even criminal intent. They’ve got a warrant for child support or heard from a friend of a friend you get the funeral bill or whatever, so they just do self-help, like back in whatever third world s—thole they came from.
We had Africans trying to bury a body (with proper funeral and all, less casket) on an empty lot about five years ago. They didn’t think they were doing anything wrong.
But for a noise complaint, we’d have only found out about it when we eventually put up a warehouse.