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 man's 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 received a call Monday that two anonymous women had dropped off a body at a hospital. Later one of the women contacted the hospital - the Ashtabula county medical centre - with information on the deceased, identified as Douglas Layman, 80, of Ashtabula.