Two women accused of driving dead man in front seat of car to bank to withdraw money

Two women have been accused of driving the body of a dead man to a bank to withdraw money from his account.

Police said they were called on Monday evening and told that two women had dropped off a body at the Ashtabula County Medical Center emergency room without identifying the person or themselves.

A few hours later, one of them contacted the hospital with information on the dead man, who was then identified as 80-year-old Douglas Layman of Ashtabula.

Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged on Tuesday in Ashtabula with gross abuse of a corpse and theft from a person in a protected class, according to Ashtabula Municipal Court records.

Officers responded to Layman’s residence and made contact with Casbohm and Feralo, who told them they had found Layman dead earlier at the home where all three lived.

Police allege that, with the help of a third unnamed person, they placed Layman in the front seat of his car and drove to a bank where they withdrew “an undisclosed amount of money” from his account.