Ohio women Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were both living with 80-year-old Douglas Layman when the elderly gentleman passed away.
That's when the two women concocted a plot to withdraw some final money out of the old man's bank account.
They loaded him up in a car and drove through the bank‘s ATM. They made sure the body was seen by the bank tellers as they withdrew $900.
Then the pair drove Layman's body to the hospital and dumped him off without any information regarding his identity or theirs.
"It's a first for all of us, I think, here," Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell told 3News. "I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this, and this is where someone used a dead body to withdraw money from the bank. It's just very, very unusual."
"This is just unconscionable behavior, the fact that he was propped up in the front seat to essentially fool the bank teller so they could make the withdrawal," Stell lamented. "That's what we're alleging took place, and that's how it appears."
When the identity of the man was ascertained, the women were arrested and charged with gross abuse of a corpse and theft.
According to the authorities, the woman say they found Layman dead in the house.
However, the police say more charges may be filed against the two women as they investigate and the coroner has not commented on the cause of death.
Layman's family is understandably upset by the whole ordeal.
"He was in a position where he didn't want to live alone," Hubbard explained. "He's been run through hell with this woman — three years of drugs, stealing, selling his stuff. [She] sold my mom's pistol."
"I went over there numerous times trying to get him to allow us to do something and he was just too scared to be alone as he was getting older, and I understood it," Hubbard admitted. "Now I feel even worse because of what they've done after the fact of him helping her for years, allowing her to take his money, allowing his house to be back on taxes. They haven't paid in three years since she's moved in."
"Just a great guy, he really was. He didn't bother no one. He kept to himself, he helped people as much as he can. He's always been there for our family," Hubbard said. "I just hate to see everything splattered out like this and then thinking that he had no family, because he did. He just didn't want to be alone."
That's just about the saddest thing I've ever heard.
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