Did this man wheel his dead mum into a bank to withdraw cash?

Like a bizarre real-life version of 'Weekend at Bernies', David Vanzo, from Plymouth, Minnesota, is currently under investigation, to see whether he put his recently-deceased mother into a wheelchair, and wheeled her into a bank to make a cash withdrawal.

There have been no charges, and Vanzo is denying any wrong-doing - highlighting that he and his mother have a joint bank account, and are able to withdraw money whenever they wish.

A report in the Metro confirmed that all we know is that seven hours before her son reported her death, on 5 January, 90-year-old Caryl was wheeled into a branch of Wells Fargo, where her son made a withdrawal of $850.

Fox 9 news has reported that witnesses in the bank suggested she may have at least been unconscious at the time - with her feet dragging under the wheelchair, and no real certainty as to whether or not she was breathing.

When police officers arrived at the home she shared with her son, the state of her body and the property led them to arrest David on suspicion of neglect, but there have been no charges.

Weird crimes

It's hard to imagine that anyone would consider anything so grotesque as to wheel a corpse around for financial gain. But while we have no idea whether or not David Vanzo did anything of the sort. There have been two other occasions when criminals have make this horrifying decision.

In 2008, two men wheeled one of their housemates around Hell's Kitchen on an office chair, in an attempt to cash his Social Security cheque - the day after he died. Witnesses said the man hadn't been fully-dressed, and was flopping from side-to-side as he was pushed. They were eventually caught after they decided to leave the corpse outside a cheque-cashing store, where it attracted the attention of an off-duty policeman.

In 2012, two men in Denver pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and were given probation. They had found their friend dead at home, and decided to put him in a car while they drove around town visiting bars and restaurants and paying on the dead man's credit card. They then took the corpse home to bed, and left again with his card, taking money out of an ATM, visiting a few more bars and a strip club. At the end of their spending spree they flagged down a police officer and told them their friend might be dead at home.

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