OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — 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.
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.
Prosecutors say Lynn and Kirk Ritter, both 61, continued depositing and spending from the man's bank account even while his body became “mummified” on a bed in the home he owned.
A couple in Kansas has been charged for fraudulently collecting more than $215,000 in retirement benefits on behalf of a relative who had already died. And the couple reportedly kept the corpse of the relative's body in their home for six years, according to NBC News.
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