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.
If he made them a beneficiary then they would have a right to the money? An I missing something there?
Usually no. The pension ends when the person dies. Some will pay the spouse a reduced amount. But I haven’t heard of one that pays the kids.
Not sure of the law or whatever I’m just saying this story sounds awful but I could see myself doing something similar right?