Posted on 09/10/2021 1:46:57 AM PDT by Libloather
A man in Austria kept his mother's "mummified" body in the basement for more than a year after she died to continue collecting her pension and care benefits, Tyrol police said in a news release on Thursday.
The unidentified 66-year-old man from Tyrol in West Austria told police that his 89-year-old mother died at home in mid-2020, per the news release. Officials said the mother was believed to have had dementia, Austrian national public service broadcaster ORF reported.
The man stored his mother's body with ice packs to prevent odor and used bandages to soak up fluids, police officer Helmuth Gufler from the Tyrol social security fraud department told ORF Tyrol.
"Ultimately, the corpse was then mummified," Gufler told ORF Tyrol.
Officials said the suspect confessed during an interrogation.
An autopsy was carried out on Wednesday and no signs of foul play in the woman's death were detected, Tyrol police said in the news release.
Police estimate the man had collected around 50,000 euros ($59,150) from his mother's benefits, per the BBC. Gufler told ORF the suspect had no other income, and that his mother's monthly benefits payments would have been cut off if he had reported her death.
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Need to do a FOI request and see how much the White House spends on ice and bandages each month.
Norman? Is that you, Norman?
Had it been his mother in law, I could understand. But his own mom, just sick!
We had a fellow that kept in mother wrapped in plastic for close to three years.
Only found her after he died.
Sorta like keeping a puppet in power while someone else is doing all the damage. :)
No sorry Mother isn’t feeling herself today.
Worked for Norman Bates
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