COLCHESTER, N.Y. An upstate New York man has admitted that he put his 98-year-old dead mother in his freezer so he could keep cashing her Social Security checks.
State police discovered Herta Auslander's body in her son's freezer in October after receiving a tip that she'd died more than a year earlier. An autopsy concluded that she died of only natural causes.
Prosecutors say 69-year-old Rosland Auslander kept his mother in the freezer for 18 months at his home in Cooks Falls, about 100 miles northwest of New York City. After eluding capture for months, he was arrested at his home in March.
Auslander pleaded guilty to grand larceny and forgery charges in Sullivan County court Friday. He faces up to seven years in prison.
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