09/10/2021 11:15
Clarín.com
Dresses
Updated 09/10/2021 3:17 PM
Austrian police reported a shocking discovery on Thursday.
In the basement of a house located in the state of Tyrol, they
found the body of an old woman who had been dead for more than a year.
She had been mummified
by her son, who
wanted to continue collecting social benefits from her.
"Investigations revealed that this 89-year-old woman died in June 2020
and the 66-year-old man
kept his body to continue benefiting from aid,
" the security forces explained in a statement.
The suspect, who lived with his mother near the city of
Innsbruck
, admitted during his arrest that he
had frozen the body to make sure it would not smell like death
and then
absorbed the body fluids with bandages. "
"Investigations revealed that this 89-year-old woman passed away in June 2020."
REUTERS
"Then he covered the body with cat litter and finally the body was mummified,"
agent Helmut Cufler, head of the police unit specializing in social benefit fraud
,
told the public television station ORF.
"Is in the hospital"
When his brother visited the home and asked him about his mother, who suffered from dementia before she died and had few people other than her children,
the suspect replied that she had been admitted to a hospital.
The aid was received through a postal check
and when a new postman asked to see the beneficiary, her son
refused
.
This made him suspicious and he reported the facts.
When a new postman asked to see the beneficiary, her son refused.
They finally
found the mummy last Saturday.
Consequently, the police accuse the suspect of a crime of fraud of State aid and concealment of a corpse.
AFP
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