Posted on 10/14/2008 5:55:37 PM PDT by radar101
Tehama County Sheriff's Office Investigators says this necklace, worn by Kathleen Allmond, was made with a portion of Ramona Allmond's skull.
Tony Ray
An elderly California grandmother allegedly was cremated in her backyard by her daughter and grandson, who then cashed her monthly retirement checks for nearly a year, authorities say.
Kathleen Allmond, 50, and son Tony Ray, 30, were arrested Sunday after Tehama County Sheriff's officers found a makeshift barbecue containing remains believed to be those of Ramona Yolanda Allmond, 84, who died at her Corning residence of unknown causes in December, Capt. Paul Hosler said.
After the woman's death, which remains under investigation, Allmond and Ray allegedly laid her body on a bedroom floor for a week before moving it to a cement culvert behind the family's residence.
Hosler said the cement culvert had been a makeshift barbecue, used by the family to cook its Thanksgiving turkey several weeks earlier.
"They let her lie on the floor for a week before burning her for 17 hours," Hosler told FOXNews.com. "The two of them did this together."
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We’ll prepare the tranquilizer dart.
What kind of job can this character hold? An act in a freak show?
Why would anyone flame you?
I totally agree.
The late Granny, Ramona Yolanda Allmond:
Note the family resemblance.
Why would anyone flame their own grandmother?
Gruesome.
"You can call me Ray,
or you can call me To-nay,
or you can call me Tony Ray,
but ya doesn't hafta call me late to the Baba-Q..."
Just your average, non-descript mother and son. "And they seemed like such nice people. . . ."
I don't think there was any "allegedly" about it. Either you was or you wasn't.
(Toasted Allmond?)
LOL!
Someone proposed a Toast to Grandma. They took it serious!
The man sure believes in the power of Gyro.
Bee yourself...
Lmao!!
Probably used an ATM card.
Between Direct Deposit and the ATM I have stepped foot in my bank exactly twice in the last three years.
What's the big deal, that happens all the time........
I administered my company's UAW pension plan and encountered this type of fraud constantly. We had one case where a sister of a surviving spouse continued to cash her deceased sister's checks for many years after she had died to the tune of around $30,000..........
Not much we could do about it other than try to scare her into a payment plan to recover the monies. After a number of months the payments stopped coming and we discovered she had died.........
To answer the next question, being out of state the legal costs to pursue action against a 70+ year old lady just was not worth it.......
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