Real-life Weekend at Bernie’s? Ohio women take dead friend on a bank run

Karen Casbohm and Loreen Bea Feralo were arrested after they allegedly used the body of deceased housemate to access cash

In a case that bears more than a passing resemblance to the plot of the 1989 film Weekend at Bernie’s, two Ohio women have been accused of driving a dead body to a bank to withdraw money from his account.

Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged Tuesday in Ashtabula with, among other things, gross abuse of a corpse. Police said they were called on Monday evening and told that two women had dropped off a body at a hospital without identifying the person or themselves. A few hours later, one of the women contacted the hospital – the Ashtabula county medical center – with information on the deceased, who was then identified as 80-year-old Douglas Layman of Ashtabula.