2 US women drove dead man, 80, to Ohio bank to withdraw his money, police say
- Karen Casbohm and Loreen Bea Feralo allegedly placed the body of Douglas Layman in the front seat of the car so he could be seen by bank staff
- The duo have been charged with gross abuse of a corpse and theft from a person in a protected class
Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital.
Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged on Tuesday in Ashtabula with gross abuse of a corpse and theft from a person in a protected class, according to Ashtabula Municipal Court records.
Police said they were called on Monday evening and told that two women had dropped off a body at the Ashtabula County Medical Centre emergency room without identifying the person or themselves.
A few hours later, one of them contacted the hospital with information on the deceased, who was then identified as 80-year-old Douglas Layman of Ashtabula.
Officers responded to Layman’s residence and made contact with Casbohm and Feralo, who told them they had found Layman deceased earlier at the home where all three lived.