Arkansas woman is arrested 'for leaving her 73 year-old mother's body to MUMMIFY inside old newspapers while she claimed her disability cash'

An Arkansas woman left her breast cancer patient mother to die and mummify in a feces-filled home while fraudulently collecting her disability checks, the Washington County Sherriff's office says. 

Officers searched the shared home of Geanne Pike, 54, and Gloria Pike, 73, on suspicion of identity fraud after Gloria was reported missing and Geanne was spotted using her mother's disability check card last month.

In the home, officers found Gloria's mummified corpse wrapped in newspapers from 2020.  

Officers described the home as being in 'deplorable living conditions,' with no running water and human feces and urine collected in buckets and jugs stored all throughout the house.  

Geanee, of Lincoln, was arrested on Monday for abuse of her mother's corpse and allegedly continuing to cash in on her disability benefits nearly eight months after Gloria's death.

Geanee Pike, left, was arrested on Monday for abuse of the corpse belonging to her mother, Gloria Pike, right, after police found her living with her mother's mummified body and using her disability checks

Gloria had been reported missing by her brother, George Maness, on July 21, 2021, Fox reports. 

He told police he hadn't seen his sister for nearly a year and that she was going through stage-four breast cancer the last time they'd made contact. 

As police searched for Gloria, they interviewed Geanee, who said that her mother was not missing but with an unknown friend at an unknown location. 

She refused police's request to search the house and allegedly told authorities she did not have access to her mother's bank account or credit card. 

A following investigation revealed that Geanee did use her mother's check card at the Dollar General in Lincoln on July 27, 2021. 

The officers were able to use the information to get a search warrant of the home to investigate financial identity fraud. 

Geanne claims that her mother had died at the end of 2020 of natural causes, but that she did not report it and merely covered her mother's corpse with newspapers and a blanket. 

Geanee was charged with abuse of a corpse and financial identity fraud and transferred to the Washington County Detention Center. 

The body was sent to Arkansas State Crime Lab to be identified and have the cause of death determined.