Dec 9, 2006

Family Burns Father 's Body To Keep Social Security

The Jefferson City News Tribune reports that the widow and two children of a Missouri man have pleaded guilty to concealing his death in order to keep getting his Social Security retirement benefits. Larry McWilliams died of natural causes in 1997. His family burned his body to conceal the death. The family members were improperly paid $130,000 in Social Security benefits as a result of the fraud.

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