While it’s possible this woman is suffering from some form and/or degree of mental illness, this story is nonetheless a WTF kinda story.

By Katelyn Murphy:

INDIANAPOLIS (CNN/Kate Murphy)– A Lafayette woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her husband, which went unreported for months.

Ila Solomon, 55, was taken into custody Thursday on charges of welfare fraud, theft, failure to report a dead body, failure to file a death certificate and unlawful disposition of a dead human body.

Of particular note, prosecutors allege that Solomon was illegally cashing her husband’s social security and pension checks, even while he lied dead on the floor for months.

Solomon’s husband — Gerald Gavan, 88 — was found dead May 3 in the living room of their home, nine months after he had died.

In an interview with RTV6 in August, Solomon said her husband wanted to be part of a ritual in India where vultures consume human bodies after death.

“I just think that somebody who did so much for the United States should have the death he wanted, that’s all,” Solomon said. “He just wanted to be eaten by the birds to be part of the cycle of life.”

“Plan number two would be for me to take him outside or him to die outside so that the birds could eat him here, but that didn’t happen, instead he died right there,” Solomon told reporter Drew Smith.

Solomon said Gavan died April 28th of this year from a stroke. The Tippecanoe County coroner disagreed, saying a forensic entomologist determined Gavan had been dead since at least July 2013 before officers discovered his body on his living room floor in May.

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