2024-01-21 01:37:37
The money received exceeds 216 thousand dollars and the couple must declare fraud.
A Kansas couple has been accused of fraudulently collecting more than $215,000 in retirement benefits on behalf of a deceased relative while hiding his body inside their home for six years.
Authorities say Mike Carroll’s pacemaker showed 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 suburb. from Kansas City.
Prosecutors explained that Lynn Ritter and Kirk Ritter, both 61, continued to deposit and spend from Carroll’s bank account even when his body was “mummified” in a bed in the home they owned. Lynn Ritter is Carroll’s daughter.
Family members told the Kansas City Star that the Ritters repeatedly gave them excuses about why Carroll could never take a phone call or visit them while leading them to believe Carroll was still alive.
The couple is scheduled to appear in federal court to face several charges on February 2.
They did not respond to phone messages and emails from the newspaper, and court documents do not list a defense attorney representing them.
Prosecutors said the pension and Social Security payments Carroll received during the six years after his death totaled $216,067. But bank records from that time showed that Lynn and Kirk Ritter wrote checks from their bank account and cashed them.
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