‘I just figured I would go to the bank’: Woman makes bizarre admission about taking ‘propped up’ body of dead man to withdraw his cash at bank drive-thru

Law & Crime / by Jason Kandel / Jul 12, 2024 at 9:42 AM

Two women in Ohio will serve jail time for their ill-fated scheme to prop up the corpse of an 80-year-old man in the passenger seat of his car so they could withdraw hundreds of dollars in cash from his bank account in a drive-thru ATM.

Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were sentenced after pleading guilty to abuse of corpse and petty theft charges in the bizarre case involving the body of Douglas Layman, 80, according to online court records. Casbohm was sentenced to 17 months, and Feralo will serve 15 months.

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Police said Casbohm and Feralo, who lived in Layman’s home but were not related to him, found him dead earlier in the day. The women — allegedly assisted by a man who faces charges in the case — placed Layman’s body in his car, drove to the bank and withdrew $900 cash from his account.

Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell reportedly said that the women “propped up” Layman in the passenger seat of his car to ensure the bank tellers saw that he was with them — something Stell said the bank had previously allowed.

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