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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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1 posted on 05/28/2020 6:38:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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2 posted on 05/28/2020 6:41:01 AM PDT by nwrep
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Social Security didn’t find it odd that she was allegedly 112 years old


3 posted on 05/28/2020 6:41:56 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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She probably voted democrat in each election, too (this being Pennsylvania ... )


4 posted on 05/28/2020 6:42:13 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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Was she voting absentee?


5 posted on 05/28/2020 6:42:25 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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I wonder how many elections grandmother voted in during that period.


6 posted on 05/28/2020 6:42:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Some lawyer will say that she identified as her grandmother.


7 posted on 05/28/2020 6:43:12 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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She had 15 years to dispose of the body and she procrastinated for that long?


8 posted on 05/28/2020 6:44:11 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Joe Biden:"If you don't support me then you ain't black"(explains the polls on blacks and Trump))
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After 15 years must have had a helluva freezer burn.


9 posted on 05/28/2020 6:44:22 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Something from an episode of Dragnet or a Quinn Martin show.


10 posted on 05/28/2020 6:44:43 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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Well, technically grandma was still a resident of the electoral district...


11 posted on 05/28/2020 6:45:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Naw. Granny was probably a registered Dimocommie. Free stuff runs in the party.


12 posted on 05/28/2020 6:45:59 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends at FR - Are you prepared to meet the LORD??? Do you KNOW Him? Do so today!)
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The poor granddaughter. Just when she was about to cash Grannie’s $1200 check from President Trump, she gets busted.


13 posted on 05/28/2020 6:46:29 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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Computers and software dont care, keep spitting out checks till they are instructed to stop, they never were.

Bet they will want their 15 year or so over payment back.


14 posted on 05/28/2020 6:47:29 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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Social Security didn’t find it odd that she was allegedly 112 years old.

Red flags should have gone off...you would think SS would have an algorithm to automatically check after a certain age.

15 posted on 05/28/2020 6:47:38 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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Some years back Tokyo began planning a celebration of their centenarians, but while trying to contact the people to be honored discovered many had died years before and their families hid it to keep the pension checks coming.


16 posted on 05/28/2020 6:48:17 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Anticipating a looming shortage, I bought a GE 5 cu ft freezer from Home Depot to store meat during the pandemic for $250. Good deal, no gouging reasonable delivery time.

Now that the meat shortage doesn’t appear to be a big problem, I figure I could put two bodies in there if I cut them in half if I had to. So the freezer is not wasted money on panic buying or hoarding.


17 posted on 05/28/2020 6:49:26 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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Cool idea. Cold case.


18 posted on 05/28/2020 6:49:32 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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how many times did she vote?


19 posted on 05/28/2020 6:50:42 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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Social Security didn’t find it odd that she was allegedly 112 years old

They did and that's why they caught her.

Kudos to you for doing the math, though.

I was still trying to figure out if every woman gave birth at 13 in that family.

20 posted on 05/28/2020 6:52:26 AM PDT by x
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