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Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

28 points Michelangelo11 2 hours ago 9 comments

kaydub 1 hour ago | parent

Cop stole house from dead man. Then cop sued company that rightfully bought house from dead man's heirs?

JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | parent

It’s always surprising how craftiness and intelligence, which one would expect to be joined at the hip, can exist almost independently to each other.

tanseydavid 1 hour ago | parent

I cannot help but wonder, "What did the cop do with the body?"

triceratops 20 minutes ago | parent

The story has a video showing paramedics or someone taking the body away on a stretcher.

wrs 20 minutes ago | parent

I take it you stopped reading before the fifth paragraph.

lazide 1 hour ago | parent

In this case, more like sometime someone can buy their lies so much even they start to believe them?

triceratops 19 minutes ago | parent

> Sguros [the cop] claimed he spent at least $214,000 of his own money on the home.

If he spent so much, why not just buy his own house? The house in the article is nothing special to look at.

cowlevel 1 minute ago | parent

does a house cost below $214,000 now? I haven't heard the news that the market crashed.

SoftTalker 16 minutes ago | parent

Assuming the identity of a dead person was (is still?) a common form of fraud. People (usually relatives) could collect pension and social security payments sometimes for years before being discovered (if they ever were).