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Arkansas woman lived with mothers mummified body to collect disability checks

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Arkansas woman mother mummified body abuse of corpse and financial identity fraud. Pictured,
arkansas woman mother mummified body
Arkansas woman mother mummified body abuse of corpse and financial identity fraud. Pictured, Geanee Pike and Gloria Pike (right).

Geanee Pike Arkansas woman lived with mother’s mummified body to collect disability checks. Daughter arrested for abuse of corpse & financial identity fraud. 

An Arkansas woman has been arrested after authorities found the mummified body of her elderly mother at their shared home according to reports. 

Gloria Pike, 73, was found dead — and wrapped in newspaper — at the Lincoln home she shared with her daughter, Geanee Pike, 54 on Monday. Geanee Pike was accused of accessing social security disability money that was being deposited into her deceased mother’s account each month according to WREG.

Gloria Pike’s brother reported her missing on July 21, claiming he had not seen his sister since August 2020. The brother reportedly lives next door to Gloria and Geanee Pike and on the same property.

It is believed Gloria Pike had stage four breast cancer at the time of her disappearance.

Police attempted to locate Gloria Pike and spoke to Geanee Pike on July 21. The daughter allegedly said her mother was not missing and was with an unknown person at an unknown place.

Recent financial transaction at local store 

Geanee Pike refused to allow officers to search the home, while denying having access to her mother’s credit card or bank account.

Authorities were alerted off by the daughter’s guilt after a recent transaction was recorded at a local store.

On July 27, the missing mother’s bank account records showed a transaction having been made at a Dollar General store in Lincoln. Surveillance footage from the store confirmed Geanee Pike had made the purchase. A search warrant was issued for financial identify fraud, WREG reported.

Police going through the Pikes’ home said the residence was in ‘deplorable condition’ and lacked running water. Gloria Pike’s body was reportedly discovered on a bed in the kitchen/living room area, which was located next to her daughter’s bedroom. Police said her body was mummified, wrapped in newspapers from 2020, and covered with bedding.

Buckets and jugs containing human feces and urine were also found in the home.

Following the discovery, Geanee Pike allegedly told police that her mother died from natural causes in late 2020 but she did not report it. She said she covered her mother’s dead body with a blanket.

According to The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Geanee Pike said her mother owed her money and she had promised to reimburse her through her monthly Social Security checks. She allegedly then admitted to accessing her mother’s bank account after her death.

Geanee Pike was charged with abuse of a corpse and financial identity fraud. She remains jailed without bond.

The body was sent to the Arkansas State Crime lab so officials can make a positive identification and confirm a cause of death.

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