A Kansas couple has been charged with fraudulently collecting more than $215,000 in retirement benefits on behalf of a dead relative while they concealed his body inside their home for six years.
Authorities say Mike Carroll’s pacemaker showed that he died in 2016 at age 81, but Overland Park police didn’t discover his body until 2022 after his son-in-law, Kirk Ritter, called police to report his death in the Kansas City suburb.
Prosecutors say Lynn Ritter and Kirk Ritter, both 61, continued depositing and spending from Carroll’s bank account even while his body became “mummified” on a bed in the home he owned. Lynn Ritter is Carroll’s daughter.
Like what is your exit plan on this? How long did they think they could convince people this guy was living. You can’t exactly present a mummified corpse one day and say “welp he died”.
What puzzles me is they called the cops as if they wouldn’t notice how long he had been dead for.
They could have buried him somewhere and just said he had dementia and ran away. This is just dumb.
They did their scam at the wrong time.
Today, you can put together a deep fake video including their voice.
Have the fake alienate the other family members a few times to stop them from continued inquiries