Mans Corpse Kept in Freezer to Collect Pension checks

A man who police say kept his partner's corpse in a freezer so he could collect pension checks and an insurance claim is "devoted and loving," his mother said.

William Blakely Richardson died at 76 of an aggressive form of bladder cancer in January 2006, police said.
Since then, authorities allege, his long-time partner, Paul Mahanna kept his corpse in a freezer in their garage.
Paul's mother, Helen, 87, of Santa Barbara, Calif., said the two were together for 35 years.
"Paul took such extraordinary care of Bill during his illness," she told the Medford Mail Tribune. "They cared so much for each other ... both were wonderful people."
She said she had spoken to her son once since he was jailed, saying he "seemed like himself."
He is charged with identity theft and abuse of a corpse.
Jackson County Medical Examiner Tim Pike said authorities believe Richardson's immediate family members to be dead. He said detectives had tracked down Mahanna's relatives in California, and they seemed to have "embraced William Richardson as one of their own."
The body was put in the freezer shortly after death because it showed almost no signs of decomposition, Pike said.
"It was covered in bags and wrapped in five layers of duct tape," Oregon State Deputy Medical Examiner James Olson said. "It was carefully and meticulously done."

yeah, real loving guy. Put the guy in the freezer for a pension check instead of a decent burial. Real humanitarian that one.

Yeah, that's real cold blooded.

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Darn you Heck!

Just saying, to do something like that he must have ice running through his veins.

Very chilling incident.

Totally not a heart warming story.

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They will have to put this one in the cold case files.

Have you no respect for the dead!

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Don't give me the cold shoulder.

I heard the guy's favorite rapper was Vanilla Ice.

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I'm wondering what homer did when he went to get steaks and t.v. dinners and stuff, and his dead lover is in the freezer, and he just puts the groceries on top of him or what?

That would be akward having company over. "Can you grab me a beer... it's next to the dead guy... yeah, in the freezer... check under his leg..."

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but lets not forget, the article above said he was a real nice guy, real loving humanitarian type...

His mommie vouched for him. Stand up gal she is. Treating his companion like a fuckin' popcicle, he's aces in my book.

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