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He Was Buried-But His Pension Kept Paying for 22 Years
He Was Buried-But His Pension Kept Paying for 22 Years
Fear that someone you trusted vanished and built a second life: a pension in Tucson kept depositing to Gerald Dean Patterson’s account for 37 years while his headstone stood in Calvary Ridge Cemetery dated February 11, 1989 - and his grave was empty. How did direct deposits to a Tucson savings account under a man recorded dead for more than two decades go unnoticed, and who kept the secret from his children?
In this episode, we tell what county deed records, a funeral home ledger search, and a surprise envelope on a kitchen table revealed…
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