California family "grills" Granny and collects her checks

Just when you think you have heard everything,a story like this comes down the pike and makes you realize the lengths that greed will make some people go to...
Authorities in Corning,California,report that Kathleen Allmond, 50,and her son Tony Ray, 30,actually CREMATED Kathleens elderly mother after her death at home in their backyard burn pit in order to conceal her death and collect her monthly retirement checks.The two claim that Ramona Allmond,84,died of natural causes and they left her corpse in her bedroom floor for a week before hatching their makeshift cremation plan.They claim she wanted to die at home ad be cremated,if you can believe that,but they fraudulently collected over $25,000 in pension benefits that were meant for the deceased woman,a fact that obliterates any credibility they might have had.
Their scheme unraveled when Allmonds other child,a son,grew suspicious of her whereabouts and they were arrested Sunday by the Tehama County sheriff's department on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and disposing of a body without a permit and are being held in lieu of bail.They are due for an arraignment tomorrow.
I know that times are hard and everyone is feeling the economic pinch but this is sickening.Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of death,because while the family claims it was natural,would YOU believe anything they said ?This poor woman deserved a proper cremation if that is truly what she wanted,but then of course her checks would have stopped and they knew this,obviously. I'm thinking that they probably mooched off of their matriarch for many years before her death and did not want the wheels to fall off of their gravy train.Why no other family members became suspicious in the 10 months since she vanished,nobody knows,but I am glad they were busted so Mrs.Allmond can be laid to rest properly.