WHAT HEELS: No Body, No Crime?
Phlebotomist Faye Schilling, 60, and mortuary worker Jean Crump, 66, were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly staging phony funerals to collect $1 million in life insurance payments, reports The Associated Press:
The indictment said the two women bought insurance policies, waited for them to mature, then held bogus burials or cremations and arranged for phony death certificates.
"The level of deception is shocking," said Anthony Montero, a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles.
Montero said the "dead" were likely fictitious people, but said identities of real people may have been stolen. …
Two other women, Lydia Eileen Pearce, 37, owner of a mortuary in Long Beach, and Barbara Lynn, 54, a notary from Los Angeles, previously pleaded guilty in the alleged scam, said Montero, and he believed that more arrests were likely.
[Hat Tip: The Heel, an Ivy-educated attorney with a prestigious New York firm, and occasional contributor to this blog.]
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