Sheriff: Man froze mother's body for 3 years to collect her retirement checks - Alix Kast

Jon Whiteford deep froze the body of his mother, Faye Whiteford around three years ago. It is believed that she died of natural causes rather than having been murdered, however. She appeared to have died at the age of 96 sometime in 2011. When police came to question him, Whiteford killed himself. Police believe that he depended on her social security checks before she died, and that was why he did not want to report her death. Even with the checks, the family home went into foreclosure. He had to move out of his home sometimes around Christmas of 2013. He found a house to rent in another county and left his mother's body outside there, believing that it was cold enough in the winter to keep her body frozen. Since that house was in disrepair and was not fit to be lived in without repairs, he moved into a friends house next door to his mother's home. Law authorities came to check to see why there were no signs of life from his mother, and when they came on March 29 he committed suicide. Three weeks later they brought in trained dogs to search for the body, but found none in the house he was living in. But when they went to check out the house that he had rented, they found a body wrapped up in a tarp, lying partially under a wooden box at the end of the driveway. It was his mother's body.

This is such a strange story. Just when I think news articles can't get any weirder, something like this popped up. It's strange that he killed himself, but it is pretty likely that he had some sort of mental problems, and maybe that was part of the reason why. After all, he froze his mother's dead body for three years. There are lots of unanswered questions about the case since police had no one to question about what happened, or why it happened. I think that what they assumed was correct. He probably was living off of the social security checks, and because it seems like he did not have a job, he did not want to lose that source of income when his mother died.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/us/kentucky-frozen-corpse/index.html?hpt=us_c2