Man Sentenced For Stowing Mother In Freezer
Posted on Monday, 9 of November , 2009 at 9:26 pm
BINGHAMTON—The son of a 98-year-old woman whose frozen body was found last fall in her son’s home freezer so he could continue to collect her Social Security checks has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Roland Auslander, 70 of Cooks Falls, pleaded guilty in Sullivan County Court to grand larceny and forgery for continuing to cash his mother’s checks for at least 18 months after she died. He could have been sentenced up to seven years in state prison.
He still faces a misdemeanor charge pending in Delaware County of unlawful disposal of a body.
An autopsy conducted on the body of Herta Auslander indicated that she had died of natural causes.
Cooks Falls is about 60 miles east of Binghamton.
State Police in Troop F were contacted by the son’s attorney last fall who advised that the elderly woman had died in April of 2007 and that her remains were located in a chest freezer at her residence in the Town of Colchester, Delaware County.
A search warrant was obtained to search the residence and her body was found in a freezer on the rear porch of the residence. 11-09-09
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