After our discussion this week of how in some states you can still bury a love one in your backyard. I found an article about a woman in North Carolina who buried her husband in her backyard and never told anyone. She invented a story about him moving to New Jersey to live in a nursing home to recover from a stroke that he had suffered. Its been more than a decaded later that police found his remains and the only reason why they found him is because the wife died about a year ago and she was still receiving his social security checks in with she collected over $93,000 dollars.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/308487
That is a crazy story. There are people out there who will do anything for money. I cannot believe that people believed her story for so long that her husband was living in New Jersey recovering from a stroke. There must not have been any close relatives or family friends around to check up on the husband or everyone must have really trusted the wife.
ReplyDeleteI had not heard about this story. It would be interesting to know that if the wife had not died and her husband's body was found, if she would have been charged with a crime? Did they think that she had something to do with his death? This also reminds me of a lady in Fort Myers that livd with her dead mothers body in the houe for months. She said that she could not afford to have her buried. I think that she also continued to collect her mother's social security. I wondered if it was greed or the fact that if people saw the disrepair of the house, she would be without a place to live. The ironic thing about it was that the house was torn down anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat also makes me wonder about the implications behind the husband's death. Was it really a stroke as the article says? Was it a "peaceful death" in that case? Hard to tell now, since both the husband and wife are dead.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised cases like these are more common than not. Even so, it's more surprising knowing that the social security department doesn't make some kind of clarification as to the state of well being of the individuals they are paying. According to the article, the investigations by the social security administration didn't even suspect anything until after the inactivity was reported. Who knows how much more common cases like these can be?
I was thinking about this exact topic the other day. I live in Cape Coral, where we have well systems for water instead of city water. Our city policies clearly state that you can not bury or dump and chemicals into your yards because of the risk of tainting the water tables below your homes. The City of Cape Coral also recommends not burying large animal carcasses ( I guess this means dead pets or animals from hunting) in yards either for the same reasons. I am wondering how cities with these kinds of rules can get away with burying loved ones on their land if they desire to do so. Does the Florida state law override the city of Cape Coral’s policies on this matter?
ReplyDelete- Ashley Worden