Mom’s corpse kept wrapped in newspapers by daughter who collected her Social Security: cops
An Arkansas woman is accused of wrapping her dead mother in newspapers and keeping the mummified corpse in her home while collecting her mom’s Social Security benefits.
This went on for months, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
George Maness, the brother of Gloria Pike, told police on July 21 that he hadn’t seen his 72-year-old sister in nearly a year since she went to stay with her 54-year-old daughter Geanee Pike in Lincoln, Ark.
The siblings maintained separate homes on the same property. Gloria Pike had reportedly been diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.
When police questioned Geanee Pike last month, she said her mother wasn’t missing, but was with “an unknown friend at an unknown location.” She reportedly refused to let cops search her house.
An investigation led police to a Dollar General Store, where security video allegedly showed Geanee Pike using her mom’s money card. Officers got a warrant and returned to the suspect’s home, which was reportedly filled with buckets and jugs containing human feces and urine and had no running water. That’s also where they found Gloria Pike’s corpse, wrapped in beddings and newspapers from 2020.
Geannee Pike claimed her mother died of natural causes, though a crime lab hasn’t yet confirmed a cause of death. She allegedly confessed to police she’d used her dead mom’s benefit card because Gloria Pike owed her money at the time of her death.
Geanee Pike is being held by police on charges of abusing a corpse and fraud.
