From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-567081-805518
NEW YORK (UPI) -- New York authorities said a man donned a dress, wig
and makeup to impersonate his dead mother and collect Social Security
and rent subsidies.
Thomas Prusik-Parkin, 49, allegedly took a page from Norman Bates in
Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" to pose as his mother and collect $115,000
in benefits from the government, the New York Daily News reported
Wednesday.
"I held my mother when she was dying and breathed in her last breath,
so I am my mother," police quoted Prusik-Parkin as saying at the time
of his arrest, in an ominous parallel to Hitchcock's 1960 film
starring Anthony Perkins as a man who commits murders while believing
himself to be his dead mother.
Authorities said the real Irene Prusik died in 2003 at age 73. They
said Prusik-Parkin immediately developed his mother personae,
including a fake ID and a fake "nephew" to defraud the government.
Prusik-Parkin was arraigned Wednesday on charges of grand larceny,
forgery and conspiracy linked to a deed and mortgage fraud scheme.