Posted on 04/10/2006 8:53:21 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
2 charged with filing fake obituary
Pair submited obituary for son to newspaper
Published: 04/10/2006 12:53 PM
Updated: 04/10/2006 2:47 PM
WATERLOO, IA - Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested.
James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen's 17-year-old son had died, police said.
Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Snyder, claiming he was Daniel Reddout's father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said.
Snyder, who is Jensen's boyfriend, said Reddout died at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., after a lengthy illness, police said.
Later in the week, people who know the family and the teenager saw him at a downtown restaurant and called authorities, police said.
Snyder and Jensen, who worked at Tyson Foods in Waterloo, started taking time off of work in December saying her son was sick and in a hospital, police said.
They said the plot escalated and Tyson officials were told the teenager was on life support and eventually had died.
Company officials asked the couple to verify their absence from work and Snyder took the obituary to the newspaper, police said.
The son told police about the plan, records show.
Hey, grandmas (already dead grandmas) are fair game for this scam, not your own living child!
Almost certainly, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier serves as "the newspaper of record" for Blackhawk County. In this capacity, all vital statistics (such as obituaries) and public notices (on government bids, job openings, etc.) in the newspaper are tantamount to legal documents.
The newspaper can be liable if they are in error. Likewise, if they were falsified, the perp can be prosecuted.
"Almost certainly, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier serves as "the newspaper of record""
Good point - I've heard that term but never made the connection.
Reincarnation?
Possession?
Return of the Undead?
Correct me if i am wrong, but i believe death notices filed in the media are legal. Liberal bullpoop media will always be printed without recourse however..
Working at Tyson Foods. I case that is a place where Americans don't want to work.
Typical liberals.
He's not dead. He's sleeping.
Ok, so he got better.
My girlfriend plays dead everytime we do the ......
It crossed my mind once to try this with my alma mater, IU. I wanted them to take me off of a mailing list, and thought faking my death would be a cool way to do it. The only thing that stopped me was that I knew my parents would not get the joke.
I once thought "my puppy ate my son" would work, but it didn't get past the steering committee.
Man. they really should run pictures of dumb sh*ts like these. You gotta believe stupid is written all over their faces.
Sunday, January 1, 2006 10:24 AM CST
Dan “D.J.” Reddout (1988-2005)
WATERLOO — Dan “D.J.” Reddout, 17, of Waterloo, died Saturday, Dec. 24, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., of complications from surgery.
He was born April 26, 1988, in Waterloo, son of James Snyder and Mary Jo Jensen. He attended West High School.
Survived by: his parents of Waterloo; grandparents, Vern and Edie Reddout of Iowa City and Glenda Tidaman of Waterloo; an uncle, Kevin Reddout of Cedar Rapids; and two aunts, Janet Reddout of Cedar Rapids and Sandy (Randy) Lee of Stout.
Search Courier Obituaries
Graveside services: were Tuesday at Osage Memorial Cemetery, Osage.
Memorials: may be directed to the family.
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2006/01/01/obituaries/sunday/doc43b7ff02eb3a8013222610.txt
It would be really something to read about your obituary while you are alive and kicking. I wonder what thought cross this kid's mind when he saw this.:)
Beautiful plumage.
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