A Johnson County couple has now been charged with fraudulently collecting more than $215,000 in retirement benefit.
美国约翰逊县的一对夫妇,现在被指控骗取超过21.5万美元的退休福利。
This is their dad's body remained in their Overland Park home for 6 years.
而他们父亲的尸体已经在位于欧弗兰帕克市的家中停放了6年的时间。
According to authorities, Mike Carroll's pacemaker shows he died in 2016, he was 81.
据当局称,迈克·卡罗尔的起搏器显示他于2016年去世,享年81岁。
Overland Park police didn't discover his body until 2022 after his son-in-law, Kirk Ritter, called police to report his death.
但是直到2022年,在卡罗尔的女婿柯克·里特打电话联系警察后,欧弗兰帕克市的警方才发现了他的尸体。
Prosecutors say he had died in 2016, his daughter Lynn and her husband, Kirk, continued depositing in spending from Carroll's bank account,
检察官称,卡罗尔于2016年去世,而他的女儿林恩及其女婿柯克·里特则继续从卡罗尔的银行账户中存取金钱,
even while his body became "mummified" on a bed in the home he owned.
即使他的尸体躺在自己家的一张床上已经“木乃伊化”了。
Family members told the Kansas City Star that the Ritters would repeatedly give them the excuses about why Carroll could never take a phone call or a visit,
在接受《堪萨斯城星报》采访时,其他家庭成员表示,关于为什么卡罗尔从来没有接过电话或去看望他们,里特夫妇总是会反复给出借口,
while leading them to believe that Carroll was actually still alive.
同时让他们相信卡罗尔实际上还活着。
That couple is scheduled to appear in federal court to face several charges Friday of next week.
据悉,里特夫妇将于下周五在联邦法院出庭,面对多项指控。