The daughter lived in the house with her mother's corpse and received her social benefits after she kept her mother's body in the house for several months and continued to receive the prescribed social benefits. This is reported by the KCBD.
Police came to the home of 54-year-old Kimberly Heller to check on her mother's health after relatives said they had not seen the woman for several months.
Daughter , who lived with the pensioner, refused to let law enforcement officers into the house, after which the police returned with a search warrant. Then they found the body of Heller's mother.
The police arrested the American woman. The woman was charged with desecration of a corpse. Investigators believe that Heller's mother died of natural causes, but the payments due to the woman continued to go to her account.
The court will rule in the Heller case in January.
Earlier it was reported that the Austrian resident the Tyrol region kept the mummified corpse of his mother in the basement for more than a year and received a pension for her. He used ice packs and bandages to hide the odor and covered his body with cat litter.