NJ con man admits to hiding Marine vet cousin’s body in closet for over 8 months to collect benefits

Source: New York Post

A New Jersey con man stuffed the body of his military veteran cousin inside the former soldier’s mobile home closet and lived there with it rotting away for over eight months in a ruse to collect his benefits, prosecutors revealed. Steven M. Blankenship, 59, pleaded guilty to hiding the body of his dead kin, US Marine Michael S.