Woman Drives With Dead Mom
A woman put her dead mother in the passenger seat of her car and drove her more than 1,000 miles from Colorado to an Oregon mortuary so she could be buried next to her husband.
Janet Levine was trying to save money on the costs of shipping the body of 91-year-old Mildred Catherine Wooten, said Sgt. Mike Julian of the Jefferson County, Colo., sheriff’s office.
Transporting a body across state lines without a death certificate is illegal, but authorities said they will not press charges against Levine.
About an hour after her mother died in November at Pine, Colo., near Denver, Levine dressed the body in a fresh set of pajamas and set out for the Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene, Ore., said Det. T.J. Acierno, of the Jefferson County, Colo. police.
After a service in Eugene, Wooten was buried Nov. 10 at a cemetery in Portland.
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