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It was a bizarre scene that could have played straight out of Weekend At Bernie’s.
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Two Ohio women are facing charges after police alleged a dead man’s body was used to withdraw money from his bank account, reported The Smoking Gun.
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Cops said that on March 4, the body of Douglas Layman, 80, was placed in the passenger seat of his vehicle by the two women and a third person. The women drove to a drive-thru bank teller to withdraw his money.
Police say the teller was unaware the man was dead and handed the women $900. The body was then driven to the Ashtabula County Medical Center.
“Before dropping him off [at the hospital] they went through a bank drive-thru with him propped up in the passenger seat so that the teller could see him,” Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell told the Star Beacon.
“They tried to withdraw money from his account. The bank had allowed this previously as long as they were accompanied by him.”
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Investigators alleged the women placed the body in the vehicle “in such a manner that he would be visible to bank staff in order to make the withdrawal.”
Police said the women drove the body to the hospital’s emergency room and left without identifying him to medical personnel.
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When the women were eventually tracked down by police, they explained that he had died at his Ashtabula home.
Although not related to the dead man, the women lived with him.
Police charged Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, and Karen Casbohm, 63, with theft and gross abuse of a corpse.
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