"There wasn't a bad smell." Woman watches NASCAR w/ boyfriend's corpse for months

Psychotic much?

 

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She deserves prison. That's really ****ed up.

 

Had to be a NASCAR fan.

 

Umm... yuck? Why do I even read this crap?

 

I couldn't send her to prison. If I were DA I'd chose not to prosecute. Maybe that makes me naive, while stealing the money very much is a crime, perhaps they can find a way for that to be repaid, such as wage garnishment, but her crime seems to be dangerous to no one. She definitely needs professional help, but there is something pathetically sweet about what she did. She's pretty old, and he died from natural causes, so this isn't murder. While it's twisted, I just feel too sorry for her. She really must have had no one else in her life, and in good conscious I just couldn't put her in prison.

 

Lmao... "Yuck" really made me laugh for some reason.

 

Uhh, the man's own son kept on trying to check on his dad and she wouldn't let him into the house because she was concealing the corpse. She. Deserves. Prison. Seriously, she had no right to do that.

 

That seems unnecessarily cruel. Prison is a harsh place for dangerous people. Therapy would be a must, but there's no reason to lock someone like her up with murderers and rapists. Especially since, by the article's own admission, she's been completely complicit with authorities and answered all their questions. So clearly she's not a substantial risk to anyone.

The dispute you bring up between her and the son seems mostly to be a civil, not criminal matter. He could seek restitution, but putting her away in prison doesn't, to me, seem to resolve anything. The purpose of prison is not revenge.

 

I'm not saying to do it because of revenge. This woman was cashing in on this man's checks, while also hiding from his own son the fact that he was dead. She was obviously covering her actions up. No matter how you look at it, her actions can't be justified and she deserves prison in my eyes. She knows what she did was wrong, and she even admitted that she could go to prison because of it.

Unnecessary... hell, it was unnecessary to sit with a corpse for months on end but she did it.

 

Lmao, that's morbidly hilarious... I'd watch it out of curiosity.

 

Well they sort of covered this already with Weekend At Bernie's.

 

She did commit criminal acts. Never argued she didn't. It doesn't make sense to send her to prison though, especially when they could probably find a way for her to repay the money she stole.

 

I'm inclined to agree with Optimus Prime. She just sounds pitifully sad and lonely to me.

My biggest issue with her is that he didn't let his son into the house when he tried to see his father.

 

put her under house arrest and make her pay whatever money is owed.

 

But why does she deserve prison? Why is that necessary here?

 

I've already said why I think she deserves prison in the post you quoted. Good thing I'm not a judge, let alone her judge.

The checks she repeatedly cashed didn't belong to her, and she did this in secrecy. How is that legal?

 

It's not legal. That doesn't mean a prison sentence is a good idea. Prison should be for people who pose a legitimate threat to society, this woman is a deeply depressed and lonely individual who did something very stupid after someone she knew died. Paying reparations and court mandated counseling would make sense. Prison wouldn't.

 

You'd better hope they feel the same way you and a few others on here do about the situation.

 

I do hope that. I thought that was kind of obvious.

 

Yeah, believe me. It is.