60-Year-Old Son Lived With Mother’s Dead Body For Months To Claim Benefits

60-year-old Micheal Eugene Sticken who had been withdrawing his mother’s social security money monthly has been arrested after the police found his mother’s dead body on his couch under a pile of blankets.

The Daily Mail reports:

A Florida man is behind bars this week after police found his mothers decomposing remains on his living room couch.

On May 13, an officer was called to Sticken’s Pensacola house for a welfare check and was immediately disgusted by a foul rotting odor. The officer saw two couches pushed together with blankets piled on top. When he lifted the blankets he was horrified to see Joyce Willis’ 81 corpse which was so decomposed it was unrecognizable.

The rotting body was taken to a medical examiner who determined Willis was dead for between one and four months.

Sticken said he was ‘not responsible for his mother’s death,’ and that she was his ‘best friend.’ Police say Sticken never reported the death of his mother.

Sticken is accused of  withdrawing $1,400 per month of his mother’s social security money from a joint bank account the two shared.

Police charged Sticken with grand theft and failure to report a death. He was booked at a Florida jail on Thurdsay morning on $6,000 bond.

The mother’s cause of death is still unknown but Sticken has not yet been charged in connection with her death.