Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
I like the sweet old lady who had a succession of roommates, each of whom disappeared after a few months, and she's been cashing a dozen social security checks every month, and finally somebody dug up her back yard...
What would Dr. Phil say about that?
That sounds like an episode of Forensic Files. A farm couple would look for down and out homeless men, hire them to work on their place. In the process they'd get the hiree set up for SS checks to be mailed to the farm address. After a time they'd murder the hiree, bury him on their place, continue receiving/cashing his checks, hire another one, rinse, repeat. Eventually the scam was discovered (after some years), and yeah, bodies were dug up. Went on for a while because the hirees weren't missed by anybody, no family or friends to report them missing, etc.