Mother's body in the cellar to collect pension: discovered when he disguised himself as a woman and pretended to be her

He allegedly collected his deceased mother's pension for nearly three years, keeping her body hidden in the cellar . When the woman's identity card expired, the macabre ruse came to light: the man showed up at the City Hall registry office disguised as a woman to renew it. At that point, he was discovered.

The shocking story – reported by the press and by Corriere della Sera – seems to have been inspired by the film “Psycho”, a masterpiece by Alfred Hitchcock , but it really happened in Borgo Virgilio, in the Mantua area , where a 57-year-old man will now have to answer for concealing a corpse and fraud against the INPS.

What unmasked him was his incredible and unlikely disguise , which aroused the suspicions of the municipal employees, who then alerted the local police officers.

Subsequent inspections revealed the woman's mummified body in the home's cellar . The elderly woman is believed to have died in 2022, but her son never reported her death and continued to receive her monthly allowance.

(Unioneonline)